POTENTIAL LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS AND MATURITY LEVELS OF NURSING STUDENTS: A STUDY OF ASSOCIATE DEGREE AND BACCALAUREATE DEGREE NURSING STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS.
Contributors: University of Virginia.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Education, Higher.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not a disparity exists between the nursing students in baccalaureate degree programs and associate degree programs as measured by maturity level and adaptability in potential leadership effectiveness. The six specific questions considered in this research project were as follows: (1) What are the leadership styles reported by this sample of nursing students? (2) Do baccalaureate degree nursing students score significantly higher than associate degree nursing students on a self-perceived leadership effectiveness instrument? (3) Do baccalaureate nursing students score significantly higher than associate degree nursing students on a maturity level assessment instrument? (4) To what degree is demographic information, individually or collectively, predictive of self-perceived potential leadership effectiveness scores of nursing students? (5) Are scores on a leadership effectiveness instrument related to perceived skills for baccalaureate degree and associate degree nursing students? and (6) Do graduating baccalaureate nursing students score significantly higher than graduating associate degree nursing students on either a leadership effectiveness instrument or a maturity level instrument?.

The questionnaire composed of three sections was distributed to beginning students and graduating students in twelve of the nineteen NLN accredited schools in Virginia.

The three parts of the questionnaire consisted of a demographic section, Hersey and Blanchard's LEAD-Self, and Douglas Heath's Perceived Self Questionnaire (PSQ).

The analysis showed that (1) graduating baccalaureate degree nursing students scored significantly higher than graduating associate degree nursing students on a potential leadership effectiveness instrument; (2) there is a statistically significant difference on potential leadership effectiveness scores as related to past leadership experience; (3) there is a low positive correlation between maturity level scores and potential leadership effectiveness scores; (4) demographic factors of age and amount of education were not statistically significant predictors of scores on potential leadership effectiveness; (5) nursing students generally scored higher on the LEAD-Self instrument and the Perceived Self Questionnaire than other undergraduate students previously reported in the literature (Barati, 1981; Ender, 1981; & Ellis, 1982); and (6) characteristics of age, education, and marital status that had been thought to be related to maturity and potential leadership effectiveness did not prove to be significant in this study. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.).
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-02, Section: A, page: 0434.

Thesis (ED.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, 1985.

School code: 0246.