Determination of meaning in life among nursing students based on temperament characteristics

Abstract

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine meaning in life among nursing students based on their sociodemo graphic and temperament characteristics. Methods: The population and sample of this descriptive study consists of 442 volunteer nursing students who werestudying in their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year during the 2017–2018 academic year at the Health Sciences Faculty of NursingDepartment of a public university in the Aegean Region of Turkey. The Temperament Evaluation of the Memphis, Pisa,Paris, and San Diego Auto-questionnaire (TEMPS-A), The Meaning in Life Questionnaire, and a personal informationform were used to collect data. Numbers, percentages, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis H, Spearman Correlation Anal ysis was used for data evaluation. Results: The subscale of the Presence of Meaning in Life was found to have a negative and significant correlation withTEMPS-A subscales of depressive, cyclothymic, and irritable temperaments; and a positive and significant correlationwith the subscale of hyperthymic temperament (p