ReviewMedical education online2023
Literature review of the research on nursing students' professional self-concept.
Review in Medical education online, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Research progress of measuring tools for nursing students' clinical learning environment.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Healthy Lifestyle and Professional Identity in Nursing Students: A Scoping Review of Their Interrelationships.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Review
- The Predictive Role of Community of Inquiry in Shaping Students' Creative Self-Concept: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing open · 2026Article
- Analysing the Effects of Organisational Politics on Nurses' Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Nurses' Professional Self-Concept.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- A Systematic Review of Nursing Competencies: Addressing the Challenges of Evolving Healthcare Systems and Demographic Changes.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Review
- Translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of the Nurse Self-Concept Questionnaire (NSCQ) for Portuguese nursing students.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Nurses' perspectives on professional self-concept and its influencing factors: A qualitative study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Perception of the professional self-image by nurses and midwives. Psychometric adaptation of the Belimage questionnaire.BMC nursing · 2023Article
- Translation, Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Nurses Self-Concept Instrument (NSCI) to Spanish.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Preceptoring of Graduate Nursing Students in Iraq.Advances in medical education and practice · 2023Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo understand the current situation and progress of nursing students' professional self-concept, this review aimed to perform a general analysis of research related to the connotation of professional self-concept, measurement tools, influencing factors, effects, and intervention experiments.
methodsThree databases (Web of Science, PubMed, and CNKI) were searched for relevant articles. Research articles that met specific criteria were included, with identified articles initially screened by title and keyword. Then the abstracts were screened for relevance, and the full text was read for validation before inclusion. Descriptive analysis was performed with relevant findings from data retrieved from various sources.
resultsFinally, 54 articles that met the criteria were included, which organised the connotation of self-concept of nursing speciality, and introduced six measurement scales, such as Professional Self-Concept of Nurses Instrument and Nurse's Self-Concept Questionnaire. A total of 16 investigations on influencing factors were described, and the results showed that there were internal individual and external environmental factors. The professional self-concept was formed by analysing both factors. This paper described 17 effect surveys and found that professional self-concept had an important impact on students' mental health, academic performance, and professional values, and so on. Eight intervention experiments including attribution training and hierarchical teaching were evaluated.
conclusionsResearch articles on the professional self-concept included in this review were rich. These articles clarified the basic connotation of the concept, developed relatively mature measurement tools, found many influencing factors and effects, and proposed effective intervention strategies. They were of great value for understanding the professional self-concept and could provide a reference for scholars to conduct relevant research and practice. It also presents research prospects in this field, aiming to inspire future research.
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