Table 2 Correlation between demographic characteristics of nursing students and sense of life meaning (n = 418)
| Â | Number of people | Ratio(%) | Sense of life meaning | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
mean ± sd | t/F | P | |||||||||
Gender | Â | Â | |||||||||
 Female | 299 | 71.53 | 42.23 ± 10.87 | t = 7.713 | <0.001 | ||||||
 Male | 119 | 28.47 | 52.97 ± 13.56 | ||||||||
Education | Â | Â | |||||||||
 Specialty | 215 | 51.44 | 40.25 ± 10.73 | F = 44.420 | <0.001 | ||||||
 Undergraduate | 127 | 30.38 | 52.01 ± 12.18 | ||||||||
 Graduate Students | 76 | 18.18 | 48.32 ± 12.40 | ||||||||
Clinical practice Experience | Â | Â | |||||||||
 Yes | 284 | 67.94 | 44.07 ± 12.12 | t=−2.785 | 0.006 | ||||||
 No | 134 | 32.06 | 47.87 ± 13.38 | ||||||||
Past COVID−19 infection |  |  | |||||||||
 Yes | 314 | 75.12 | 45.74 ± 12.81 | t = 1.263 | 0.207 | ||||||
 No | 104 | 24.88 | 43.93 ± 12.10 | ||||||||