TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychological attachment to nursing in the early career
T2 - occupational commitment profiles, motivational patterns, retention, and performance
AU - Somers, Mark John
AU - Birnbaum, Dee
AU - Finch, Linda
AU - Casal, Jose
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 The Vocational Aspect of Education Ltd.
PY - 2019/10/2
Y1 - 2019/10/2
N2 - This purpose of this study was to use occupational commitment profiles to study the vocational education of student nurses to gain new insights into their motivational patterns, performance, and retention. Three occupational commitment profile groups, based on the relative levels of the affective, continuance, and normative commitment mindsets were observed: affective dominant, moderately committed and continuance-normative dominant. These profile groups varied in terms of their motivational patterns and orientation towards a nursing career and academic performance, but did not differ with respect to persistence in nursing school. The implications of our results for building commitment to nursing during vocational training and in managing the nursing shortage were discussed.
AB - This purpose of this study was to use occupational commitment profiles to study the vocational education of student nurses to gain new insights into their motivational patterns, performance, and retention. Three occupational commitment profile groups, based on the relative levels of the affective, continuance, and normative commitment mindsets were observed: affective dominant, moderately committed and continuance-normative dominant. These profile groups varied in terms of their motivational patterns and orientation towards a nursing career and academic performance, but did not differ with respect to persistence in nursing school. The implications of our results for building commitment to nursing during vocational training and in managing the nursing shortage were discussed.
KW - Occupational commitment
KW - commitment profiles
KW - nursing careers
KW - person centred research
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U2 - 10.1080/13636820.2018.1535516
DO - 10.1080/13636820.2018.1535516
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055103937
SN - 1363-6820
VL - 71
SP - 501
EP - 518
JO - Journal of Vocational Education and Training
JF - Journal of Vocational Education and Training
IS - 4
ER -