The Effects of Christian Worldview and College life Stress on Adaptation to College Life at Christian University

Abstract

Due to the recent decrease in the school age population, student retention rate indicators are becoming more important in university evaluation. Therefore, universities need to make various efforts to help students adapt to college life. Many college students complain of maladjustment due to stress from academic problems, career problems, interpersonal difficulties, and emotional adaptation. The Christian worldview guides the world toward the direction of life from the essence of creation, rather than the satisfaction of external pragmatism. In this regard, this descriptive research study is an attempt to find out how the Christian worldview of nursing students and the stress of college students in Christian university influence their accommodation degree to the university life. The subjects of the study were students in the first and second grades of nursing at B University in City C, and the term of data gathering was from May 1 to May 30, 2023. A total of 235 people engaged in the research. The gathered data were used by ANOVA, independent t-test, and multiple regression using SPSS/Win 23.0. Looking at the result of the research, it was found that male had a statistically significant higher degree of college life adaptation than female students, in the 1st students than in the 2nd students. The better the health condition, the better the interpersonal relationship, and the higher the major satisfaction, the better the college life adaptation, and the lower the stress, the better the college life adaptation, and the statistically significant the correlation. The grade, gender, health status, interpersonal relationships, college life stress, and major satisfaction of nursing students were found to be factors affecting college life adaptation, and this variable explained 43.9% of college life adaptation. The findings revealed various factors that can influence the adaptation of nursing students to college life. It is further implied that focusing on these factors, the student retention rate index can be improved by enhancing the accommodation of nursing students to college life.