Relationship between Color Preference, Emotional Intelligence, and Interpersonal Relationship of Nursing Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to provide the basic data for the program to enhance the adaptability of the nursing department students by analyzing their color preference, emotional intelligence and the interpersonal relationship. The data were collected through the structured self-reported questionnaires and to verify the difference in the emotional intelligence and interpersonal relationship depending on the color preference, t-test, ANOVA, and the correlation were analyzed using the Pearson's correlation coefficients with the SPSS 20.0 program. In the results, the color preference of the nursing department students showed to have correlation with the emotional intelligence and the interpersonal relationship. Therefore, based on the results of this study, it is expected that the study on the color should be made continuously with the nursing department students so that the emotional intelligence and the interpersonal relationship can be improved, and would reflect their results actively.