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1Department of Education Nursing, Ege University Faculty of Nursing, Izmir, Turkey.
Background:
Epistemological beliefs in their most general form define an individual's subjective beliefs about what knowledge is and how knowing and learning occur.
Objectives:
To investigate epistemological beliefs and the Self-efficacy Scale in nursing students.
Design:
Prospective survey study.
Settings:
University School of Nursing.
Participants:
Nursing students.
Methods:
Outcome parameters included Nurses' Descriptive Characteristics Data Form, Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire and Self-efficacy Scale.
Results:
As for the subscales of epistemological beliefs, Effort Subscale was 38.89 ± 11.62, Ability Subscale was 24.02 ± 6.19 and Unchanging Truth Subscale was 30.65 ± 5.74. Total score of the self-efficacy subscales was 74.39 ± 13.59. It has been determined that the majority (60.8%) of nursing students have chosen the nursing profession willingly, 82.8% of them like the nursing profession and 59.8% of students have a good perception of their own academic achievements.
Conclusions:
Understanding student's epistemological beliefs, trying to improve them and creating suitable learning environments for the development of self-efficacy should be the aim of an education that values individual differences.
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