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dc.contributor.authorHolman, Deborah Ann.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-09T17:34:32Z
dc.date.available2009-07-09T17:34:32Z
dc.date.issued1993-07-09T17:34:32Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/1810
dc.description.abstractA convenience sample of twenty registered nurses was recruited from two' general hospitals and two community college nursing schools. Kelly's (1955) Personal Construct Theory provided the theoretical framework to discover how nurses perceived themselves as educators. The nurses completed a self-administered Self-Perception Inventory (Soares, 1983) to determine their perception of self as nurse and ideal self as nurse. In an interview, each of the nurses constructed a rank-order repertory grid adapted from Kelly's (1955) Role Repertory Construct Test. Twelve constructs derived from the Self-Perception Inventory (Soares, 1983) were ranked according to a list of ten elements common to a teaching situation. Rank order correlations among the constructs were determined with Spearman's rho. Using a dependent samples t-test, significant differences were found between perceptions of current and ideal self for staff nurses. Significant differences were also found between nurse educators' perceptions of self and ideal self as nurse. No significant differences were determined in perceptions of self as nurse and ideal self as nurse between the staff nurse and nurse educator groups with an independent samples t-test. However, observations of single constructs revealed that although several constructs are shared between the groups in the perception of self in a teaching situation, both groups hold constructs that operate exclusively in their separate domains. The nature and strength of the relationships between the common and unique constructs are different for each group. Nurses I self-perceptions appear to be influenced by the historical development of nursing, role socialization during nursing education, social expectations and gender issues in the health care system.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrock Universityen_US
dc.subjectPersonality development--Social aspects.en_US
dc.subjectPersonal construct theory--Social aspects.en_US
dc.subjectNursing--Study and teaching--Social aspects--Ontario.en_US
dc.subjectNurses--Social aspects--Ontario.en_US
dc.titleConstruing social dimensions of personality development: nurses as educatorsen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen
dc.degree.nameMaster of Educationen_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in Educationen_US
dc.degree.disciplineFaculty of Educationen_US
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