EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCENTIVE AND SELECTED VARIABLES ASSOCIATED WITH GRADUATE STUDENTS IN NURSING.
Contributors: University of Missouri--Columbia.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Education, Higher.; Education, Educational Psychology.; Psychology, Social.
Description: Purpose. The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether Expectancy-Value Theory could be used to explain motivations for pursuing nursing graduate education and to respond to the research question: Is there a positive and linear relationship between incentive and three variables, age, enrollment status, and entering GPA?.

Procedure. A survey instrument designed to elicit personal data information, expectancy of success, and value associated with graduate education was administered to graduate nursing students with 19 or less graduate credit hours in public Research Universities I in the Midwest.

Findings. The 99 usable responses were analyzed using standard multiple regression. Responses on the dependent variable, incentive, were confined to such a restricted range that significant correlations were not possible.

Conclusions. Application of the theory is still to be considered but further research must allow for adjustments in population, instrumentation, and independent variables.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-11, Section: A, page: 3814.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA, 1992.

School code: 0133.