The influence of undergraduate internship students' self-transcendence on the ability of innovative behavior: The mediating effect of occupational benefits

Objective To investigate the status of innovative behavioral ability of undergraduate nursing students, analyze the relationship between nursing students′ sense of benefit, self-transcendence and innovative behavioral ability, and explore the mediating effect of occupational benefit in self-transcendence and innovative behavioral ability. Methods A convenient sampling method was used to select 223 undergraduate nursing students in the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine as the research object from October 2017 to April 2019. The cross-sectional survey was conducted using the occupational benefit, self-transcendment scale and nurses′ innovative behavior scale. Apply SPSS21.0 to analyze the correlation between self-transcendence, occupational benefit and innovative behavior of undergraduate nursing students, apply AMOS 22.0 for mediating effect test, and use the bias-corrected percentile Bootstrap method to estimate the median effect of occupational benefit 95% confidence interval. Results The path coefficient of undergraduate nursing students′ self-transcendence to innovative behavioral ability was significant (r value was 0.31, P<0.01). Self-transcendence had a significant positive effect on positive occupational sense (r value was 0.36, P<0.05). The 95% confidence interval for the Bootstrap test of the indirect effect of positive occupationality was 0.02-0.07; the positive sense of occupation had a partial mediating effect between self-transcendence and innovative behavioral ability, with an effect value of 0.14 and a total effect value of 0.42. That was, the mediation effect value accounted for 33.3% of the total effect value. The path coefficient of the team's ability to feel innovative behavior was significant (r value was 0.39, P<0.05), and self-transcendence had a positive impact on team belonging (r value was 0.28, P<0.01). The 95% confidence interval for the Bootstrap test for the indirect effects of team belonging was distributed in 0.10-0.42. The sense of belonging of the team had a partial mediating effect between self-transcendence and innovative behavioral ability. The mediating effect value was 0.07, and the total effect value was 0.42, that was, the mediating effect value accounts for 16.7% of the total effect value. Conclusions Self-transcendence of undergraduate nursing students can directly predict the ability of innovative behavior, and can also indirectly predict the ability of innovative behavior through the mediating role of positive career perception and team belonging in the sense of professional benefit. Improving the professional benefit and self-transcendence of nursing students in clinical teaching may be an effective way to improve the ability of innovative behavior. Key words: Undergraduate nursing students; Self-transcendence; Innovative behavioral ability; Occupational benefit