The Serial Multiple mediating Effect of Personality and Social-Emotional Competence on the Relationship Between Communication skills and Leadership of Nursing Students

Objectives The purpose of this study is to verify the serial multiple mediating effects of personality and Social- Emotional Competence on the relationship between communication skills and leadership of nursing students. Methods The study subjects were 133 students enrolled in the Department of Nursing in G city, and data collection was conducted through an online survey from November 1 to November 20, 2023. The SPSS/23.0 program was used to analyze the data with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, multiple regression, and Hayes(2022) PROCESS Macro Model 6 was used to analyze the serial multiple mediator model. Results First, there was statistically significant positive(+) correlation between nursing student’s communication skills, leadership, personality and social-emotional competence. Second, in the relationship between nursing students communication skills and leadership, the mediating effect of personality and social emotional competence was found to be significant. Finally, in the relationship between communication skills and leadership, personality and social emotional competence showed significant serial multiple mediating effects. Conclusions These findings, suggest that effect occurs when personality and social emotional competence, sequentially mediated in the relationship between nursing students' communication skills and leadership. Therefore, it is suggest that to develop leadership in nursing students’, there is a need to enhance not only communication skills but also personality and sociol-emotional competencies.