Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of the conflict resolution program for nursing college students before clinical practice. The research design was a quasi-experimental research of a nonequivalent control group. The conflict resolution program was used as the experimental treatment with nursing college students before clinical practice from March to May, 2011. The participants were 114 second-year nursing college students before clinical practice (60 in the experimental and 54 in the control group) from 3 nursing colleges in Korea. For 8 weeks, the experimental group received the interventions weekly. Frequencies, ՗²-test and t-test with the SPSS program 19.0 were used to analyze the data. The research design was a quasi-experimental research of a nonequivalent control group. There were significant changes in the level of the conflict resolution ability (t=2.16, p=.035) in experimental group. The scores of cooperative conflict resolution style were increased and avoidant and aggressive conflict resolution style were decreased in the experimental group. But there were no significant changes in conflict resolution styles in experimental group. There were no significant changes in the level of conflict resolution abilities and styles in the control group. These results indicate that the conflict resolution program is an effective nursing intervention to increase the level of the conflict resolution ability for nursing student before clinical practice. (Korean J Str Res 2011;19:351∼360)

• Keywords: Conflict resolution program, Conflict resolution ability, Nursing college student