Associations of learning style with cultural values and demographics in nursing students in Iran and Malaysia
Purpose: The goal of the current study was to identify associations between the learning style of nursing students and their cultural values and demographic characteristics. Methods: A non-probability purposive sampling method was used to gather data from two populations. All 156 participants were f...
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| description | Purpose: The goal of the current study was to identify associations between the learning style of nursing students and their cultural values and demographic characteristics. Methods: A non-probability purposive sampling method was used to gather data from two populations. All 156 participants were female, Muslim, and full-time degree students. Data were collected from April to June 2010 using two reliable and validated questionnaires: the Learning Style Scales and the Values Survey Module 2008 (VSM 08). A simple linear regression was run for each predictor before conducting multiple linear regression analysis. The forward selection method was used for variable selection. P-values ≤0.05 and ≤0.1 were considered to indicate significance and marginal significance, respectively. Moreover, multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was performed to determine the invariance of the Farsi and English versions of the VSM 08. Results: The perceptive learning style was found to have a significant negative relationship with the power distance and monumentalism indices of the VSM 08. Moreover, a significant negative association was observed between the solitary learning style and the power distance index. However, no significant association was found between the analytic, competitive, and imaginative learning styles and cultural values (P>0.05). Likewise, no significant associations were observed between learning style, including the perceptive, solitary, analytic, competitive, and imaginative learning styles, and year of study or age (P>0.05). Conclusion: Students who reported low values on the power distance and monumentalism indices are more likely to prefer perceptive and solitary learning styles. Within each group of students in our study sample from the same school the year of study and age did not show any significant associations with learning style. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f684f585326a4180a182a5abaf44d6472023-09-02T06:26:47ZengKorea Health Personnel Licensing Examination InstituteJournal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions1975-59372015-08-011210.3352/jeehp.2015.12.42169Associations of learning style with cultural values and demographics in nursing students in Iran and MalaysiaAbdolghani Abdollahimohammad0Rogayah Ja’afar1 Nursing and Midwifery School, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran Department of Medical Education, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, MalaysiaPurpose: The goal of the current study was to identify associations between the learning style of nursing students and their cultural values and demographic characteristics. Methods: A non-probability purposive sampling method was used to gather data from two populations. All 156 participants were female, Muslim, and full-time degree students. Data were collected from April to June 2010 using two reliable and validated questionnaires: the Learning Style Scales and the Values Survey Module 2008 (VSM 08). A simple linear regression was run for each predictor before conducting multiple linear regression analysis. The forward selection method was used for variable selection. P-values ≤0.05 and ≤0.1 were considered to indicate significance and marginal significance, respectively. Moreover, multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was performed to determine the invariance of the Farsi and English versions of the VSM 08. Results: The perceptive learning style was found to have a significant negative relationship with the power distance and monumentalism indices of the VSM 08. Moreover, a significant negative association was observed between the solitary learning style and the power distance index. However, no significant association was found between the analytic, competitive, and imaginative learning styles and cultural values (P>0.05). Likewise, no significant associations were observed between learning style, including the perceptive, solitary, analytic, competitive, and imaginative learning styles, and year of study or age (P>0.05). Conclusion: Students who reported low values on the power distance and monumentalism indices are more likely to prefer perceptive and solitary learning styles. Within each group of students in our study sample from the same school the year of study and age did not show any significant associations with learning style.http://www.jeehp.org/upload/jeehp-12-42.pdfDemographyLearningNursing studentsIranMalaysia |
| spellingShingle | Abdolghani Abdollahimohammad Rogayah Ja’afar Associations of learning style with cultural values and demographics in nursing students in Iran and Malaysia Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions Demography Learning Nursing students Iran Malaysia |
| title | Associations of learning style with cultural values and demographics in nursing students in Iran and Malaysia |
| title_full | Associations of learning style with cultural values and demographics in nursing students in Iran and Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Associations of learning style with cultural values and demographics in nursing students in Iran and Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Associations of learning style with cultural values and demographics in nursing students in Iran and Malaysia |
| title_short | Associations of learning style with cultural values and demographics in nursing students in Iran and Malaysia |
| title_sort | associations of learning style with cultural values and demographics in nursing students in iran and malaysia |
| topic | Demography Learning Nursing students Iran Malaysia |
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