Adult Motivational Factors for Nursing Education

Abstract

Deciding to enrol in continuing education first after completing primary and then secondary school education is a big step for everyone. This requires a motive, which we define as the desired goal, and the motivational factors that help us achieve this goal. The purpose of the paper is to determine, through a qualitative research method, what motives and motivational factors, collectively called motivational factors, influence the decision to continue formal nursing education at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Novo mesto. We find that statistically significant differences emerge in the individual motivational factors between full-time and part-time students, the largest being the motivational factor “to be independent and independent” (F = 31,096; p = 0.000). Full-time students rate the motivation factor “to be independent and autonomous” with the highest grade point average ( x = 4.74), and the motivational factor “to gain a greater reputation” for both full-time and part-time students ( x = 2.84) scores the lowest. We also note that the desire to continue studying at the second level after completing the first level of education with promotion to a higher year does not increase or decrease.