Sarah J Peterson, Gregory T Smith
Association between elementary school personality and high school smoking and drinking
Addiction (Abingdon, England)
investigate relationship ethical reasoning confidence selfesteem among female nursing students enhancing quality work life necessary component professional competence prerequisite highquality care ethical reasoning confidence competence well selfesteem subjective perception ones worth significance descriptive correlational crosssectional study design data collected within month starting december 2022 january 2023 164 nursing students recruited one college governmental university riyadh respondents completed selfadministered online questionnaires measures included selfesteem ethical reasoning confidence questionnaires findings investigated via descriptive inferential statistics well structured equation modeling examine mediating effect selfesteem behaviors attitudes nursing students toward ethical reasoning confidence nursing students moderate perception regarding selfesteem well ethical reasoning confidence mean 299 sd 058 mean 357 sd 055 respectively data revealed selfesteem accounted prediction 54 positive variance nursing students behaviors toward ethical reasoning confidence 78 variance attitudes toward ethical reasoning confidence selfesteem significant determinant nursing students behaviors attitudes toward ethical reasoning confidence research required ascertain whether approach enhances nursing students moral decisionmaking moral reasoning practical considerations acquaintance ethical concerns