MOTIVATIONAL ORIENTATIONS AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES OF PROFESSIONAL NURSES ENROLLED IN NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR NURSING (NLN) - ACCREDITED MASTER'S PROGRAMS IN NURSING IN THE UNITED STATES.
Contributors: Temple University.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Education.; Education, Adult and Continuing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to identify the motivational orientations and socio-demographic variables of professional nurses enrolled in National League for Nursing (NLN)-Accredited Master's programs in Nursing in the United States of America and to identify any relationships that existed between the motivational orientation factors and selected socio-demographic variables.

A survey-descriptive non-experimental research design was utilized for the study. Eight hundred and eighty-eight professional nurses enrolled in 35-NLN accredited Master's programs in Nursing responded to Boshier's Educational Participation Scale (EPS) and a socio-demographic questionnaire.

Analysis of data involved using descriptive and inferential statistics. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSSx) was utilized for analysis of data. The Boshier and Collins (1984) standard scoring key was used to analyze data from EPS which resulted in a mean scale score ranging from 1 to 4 for each of the six factors. Standard deviations were also calculated. Frequencies, percentages, valid percentages, means, and standard deviations were calculated for the socio-demographic data. A one-way ANOVA was used to test for relationships between the motivational orientation factors and the socio-demographic variables. A post-hoc Student-Neuman-Keuls procedure was used to determine which pairs of the socio-demographic categories differed from each other at the.05 level or less.

The highest ranked motivational orientation factor was Cognitive Interest (X = 2.90) followed by Professional Advancement (X = 2.86) and Community Service (X = 2.23).

Analysis of the socio-demographic characteristics provided a "typical profile" of the professional nurse as a married Caucasian female 31-35 years of age with no children, enrolled part-time in the master's program and who has her basic nursing education in a baccalaureate program in nursing. She has been in active nursing practice six to ten years, is currently employed full-time in staff nursing, has a clinical specialization in medical-surgical nursing in the masters program with a functional area of study in advanced clinical practice, has an annual income of $28,000. to \$33,000. and has no student loans, grants or aid.

There were twenty-one statistically significant relationships between the six motivational orientation factors and the socio-demographic variables.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-05, Section: B, page: 2244.

Thesis (ED.D.)--TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, 1992.

School code: 0225.