The relationship between quarter-life crisis and career anxiety among senior nursing students
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56922/mhc.v5i2.3320
Career Anxiety College Students Quarter Life Crisis
Abstract
Background: Early adulthood (20–35 years) is a transitional phase full of developmental demands and prone to emotional stress in the form of a quarter-life crisis, characterized by confusion about life's direction, self-doubt, and anxiety about the future, particularly career anxiety. This phenomenon is often experienced by final-year students who are in the phase of determining their academic and career futures. Final-year students, as a group of early adults, are vulnerable to experiencing a quarter-life crisis, which results in increased career anxiety.
Purpose: To determine the relationship between quarter-life crisis and career anxiety in final-year nursing students.
Method: A descriptive correlation design, and the time approach used is cross-sectional. The analysis test uses the Spearman rank test.
Results: The results of data analysis using the Spearman rank test obtained a correlation coefficient value of 0.538** with a significance of 0.000 ≤ 0.05, so Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected, which means there is a relationship between quarter-life crisis and career anxiety of final-year nursing students.
Conclusion: Quarter life crisis affects career anxiety of final year nursing students.
Keywords: Career Anxiety; College Students; Quarter Life Crisis.
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