A STUDY OF DIFFERENCES IN CERTAIN OPPRESSION RELATED ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS BETWEEN GRADUATES OF POST-LICENSURE BACCALAUREATE EDUCATION AND BEGINNING RN BACCALAUREATE STUDENTS.
Contributors: Columbia University. Teachers College.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The problem investigated in this study was whether post-licensure baccalaureate education resulted in changes in oppression-related attitudes toward nursing and toward the self, and in behavioral changes in job performance and in joining the professional organization. Selected writings of Paulo Freire concerning education of the oppressed were used to form the conceptual framework of the study. Baccalaureate education was conceptualized as a means of overcoming oppression-related behaviors and attitudes in nurses. The criterion measures were self reports of job performance as measured by the Schwirian 6-Dimension performance scale, joining of the American Nurses Association (ANA) and becoming active within the ANA, self concept as measured by the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS), and perception of nursing as measured by a semantic differential.

The research was designed as a cross-sectional study using mail survey as the method for data collection. The convenience sample was composed of 158 beginning RN-BSN students and 173 RN-BSN graduates drawn from 27 schools in the northeast.

To determine whether the mean differences obtained by the two groups were significant, the t-test for independent samples was used. There was no difference between the groups on the TSCS. On the Schwirian 6-Dimension performance scales, the graduate group rated itself significantly higher on four of the six subscales: teaching/collaboration, professional development, planning/evaluation, and interpersonal relations/communications. On the two remaining subscales of leadership and critical care, the graduate group rated itself higher than the beginning group but not significantly higher. The evaluation factor in the semantic differential showed a significantly higher mean for the graduate group while the differences in the means on the potency and activity factors were higher in the graduate group but not significantly higher.

The remaining variable of joining a professional organization was tested by Chi-square. It was found that graduates were significantly more likely to belong to ANA than beginning students. However, graduates were not more likely to be active in ANA, as measured by attending meetings regularly or serving on a committee or board, than were beginning students.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-06, Section: B, page: 2377.

Thesis (ED.D.)--COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE, 1986.

School code: 0055.