This study was conducted to examine the effects of a career coaching program on nursing students' career decision making self efficacy, self-leadership, and employment-stress. The study was designed using a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design, and data were collected between June 15 and July 31, 2016. The participants consisted of 62 4-year nursing students in D College of B City who were assigned to an experimental group (n=32) or a control group (n=34). The career coaching program consisted of 10 sessions of combined individual coaching, small group coaching and group coaching. The data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, a t-test, χ2 test, and paired t-test with the SPSS/WIN 21.0 program. After receiving the career coaching program, a difference was observed in career decision making self efficacy (t=4.99, p<0.001), self-leadership (t=5.08, p<0.001), and employment-stress (t=5.08, p<0.001) of the experimental group. The results of this study indicate that the career coaching program was effective at increasing career decision making self efficacy and self-leadership, as well as decreasing employment-stress in nursing students.
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