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      Mediating effects of general self-efficacy on the relationship between the source of meaning in life and prosocial behaviours in vocational college nursing students: A cross-sectional study

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          Objectives

          To examine the mediating effect of general self-efficacy on the relationship between the source of meaning in life (SML) and prosocial behaviours in vocational college nursing students.

          Methods

          Between March and June 2019, a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted, and 799 nursing students from three vocational colleges completed the Source of Meaning in Life Scale, General Self-Efficacy Scale and Prosocial Behaviours Scale. Data were analyzed using structural equation modelling and statistical analysis by SPSS (version 23.0, IBM).

          Results

          The average SML, general self-efficacy and prosocial behaviours scores of the 799 nursing students were 6.43±0.83, 2.48±0.59 and 3.69±0.62, respectively. Correlation analysis showed that SML, general self-efficacy and prosocial behaviours were positively correlated (P<0.01). General self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between SML and prosocial behaviours (P<0.01); this mediating effect contributed 22.97% of the total effect and explained 17.6% of the variance in the dependent variable.

          Conclusions

          Educators should focus on cultivating nursing students’ cognition and experience of meaning in life and their efficacy in life, study and work, which can improve students’ “people-oriented” service and prosocial behaviour and the quality of nursing services.

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              Update to core reporting practices in structural equation modeling.

              This paper is a technical update to "Core Reporting Practices in Structural Equation Modeling."(1) As such, the content covered in this paper includes, sample size, missing data, specification and identification of models, estimation method choices, fit and residual concerns, nested, alternative, and equivalent models, and unique issues within the SEM family of techniques.
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                PLoS One
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                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                15 December 2020
                2020
                : 15
                : 12
                : e0243796
                Affiliations
                [1 ] West China School of Nursing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
                [2 ] Fenyang College of Shanxi Medical University, Fenyang, Shanxi, China
                [3 ] Jiaxing University College of Medicine, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China
                Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Chirurgia, ITALY
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                Current address: The People’s Hospital of Yuxi City, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yuxi, Yunnan, China

                ‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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                Article
                PONE-D-20-15550
                10.1371/journal.pone.0243796
                7737967
                33320873
                e8e54ace-fb6a-4598-81bf-712931b69388
                © 2020 Cheng et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 24 May 2020
                : 26 November 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 4, Pages: 13
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004829, Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province;
                Award ID: 2019YFS0386
                Award Recipient :
                This work was supported by Science & Technology Department of Sichuan Province,in the framework of assessment of symptoms and establishment of a multidisciplinary palliative care model for elderly patients with terminal frailty(2019YFS0386). The person in charge of the project is corresponding author Qian Chen in the manuscript. And there was no additional external funding received for this study.
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