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    Concept Analysis and Development of Suffering : application of hybrid model method

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    ๊ฐ„ํ˜ธํ•™๊ณผ/๋ฐ•์‚ฌrestrictio

    ์ „์ž์ •๋ถ€์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ค์ฆ๋ถ„์„

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    ํ•™์œ„๋…ผ๋ฌธ(์„์‚ฌ) --์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ๋Œ€ํ•™์› :ํ–‰์ •ํ•™๊ณผ ํ–‰์ •ํ•™์ „๊ณต,2008.Maste

    (A) study of the relationship between the internal- external locus of control and quality of life

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    ๊ฐ„ํ˜ธํ•™๊ณผ/์„์‚ฌ[ํ•œ๊ธ€] ๋งŒ์„ฑ ์งˆ๋ณ‘์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ™˜์ž๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์™„์น˜๋˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์‹ ์ฒด์ , ์ •์‹ ์ , ์‚ฌํšŒ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“ค์„ ์ผํ‰์ƒ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์‚ด๊ฒŒ๋œ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์„ฑ ์งˆํ™˜์ค‘์˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ธ ๋งŒ์„ฑ ์‹ ๋ถ€์ „์ฆ(Chronic Renal Failure)ํ™˜์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ค์‹œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ˜ˆ์•กํˆฌ์„(Hemodialysis)์š”๋ฒ•์€ ํ™˜์ž์˜ ์ฃผ์ฆ์ƒ์„ ์™„ํ™”์‹œ์ผœ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๋ช…์„ ์—ฐ์žฅ์‹œ์ผœ ์ฃผ๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๊ณผ์ •์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์ •๋˜์–ด ์™”์œผ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Š” ์น˜์œ ๋ฒ•์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์‹ ์žฅ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๋Œ€์น˜๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ํ˜ˆ์•กํˆฌ์„ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์€ ํ˜ˆ์•กํˆฌ์„์— ์˜์กด์ ์ธ ์‚ถ์„ ์‚ด๊ฒŒ๋˜๋ฉฐ ํˆฌ์„ ์ค‘ ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์ฆ, ์ฃฝ์Œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณตํฌ, ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฉฐ ์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์˜ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ›„์—๋„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์šฐ์šธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‘”๋งˆ๋œ ๊ฐ์ •๋“ฑ์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ณ‘์œผ๋กœ ์‹ ์ฒด๊ธฐ๊ด€์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ƒ์‹ค์„ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋Š” ์—ด๋“ฑํ•œ ์ž์•„๊ฐœ๋…์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ธ๊ฐ„ ํ–‰๋™์˜ ์ฃผ์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ํ–‰๋™์–‘์‹์€ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ขŒ์šฐ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. Rotter์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋ฐœ์ „๋œ ํ†ต์ œ์œ„ ๊ฐœ๋…์€ ์ธ๊ฐ„์€ ๋‚ด์ ยท์™ธ์  ํ†ต์ œ์œ„๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ํ†ต์ œ์œ„ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋“ค์€ ๋‚ด์  ํ†ต์ œ์ž๋Š” ์™ธ์  ํ†ต์ œ์ž์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ •์„œ์ ์ธ ์žฅ์• ๊ฐ€ ์—†๊ณ  ์™ธ์  ํ†ต์ œ์ž๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ, ์šฐ์šธ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ค‘์ƒ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์–ด ๋งŽ์€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๋‚ด์™ธ์  ํ†ต์ œ์œ„ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์ƒํƒœ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํ˜ˆ์•กํˆฌ์„ ํ™˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚ด์™ธ์  ํ†ต์ œ์œ„ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์˜ ์„ฑํ–ฅ๊ณผ ์ผ์ƒ์ƒํ™œ์—์„œ ์–ป๋Š” ๋งŒ์กฑ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ(Quality of Life)๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„๋ด„์œผ๋กœ์„œ ํ˜ˆ์•ก ํˆฌ์„ ํ™˜์ž์˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๊ฐ„ํ˜ธ์ค‘์žฌ์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Œ€์ƒ์€ ์„œ์šธ์‹œ๋‚ด์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ 1๊ฐœ ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๋ถ€์†๋ณ‘์›๊ณผ, 2๊ฐœ์˜ ์ข…ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์›, 3๊ฐœ์˜ ํ˜ˆ์•กํˆฌ์„ ์ „๋ฌธ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ณ‘์›์˜ ์ธ๊ณต์‹ ์žฅ์‹ค์„ ๋‚ด์›ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ˜ˆ์•ก ํˆฌ์„ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ํ™˜์ž๋กœ์„œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ๋Œ€์ƒ์€ 140๋ช…์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๋ฃŒ์ˆ˜์ง‘ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ 1990๋…„ 4์›” 15์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 4์›” 30์ผ๊นŒ์ง€์˜€๊ณ  ์ž๋ฃŒ์ˆ˜์ง‘ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ๋ฉด์ ‘๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋„๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋‚ด์™ธ์  ํ†ต์ œ์œ„ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์„ ์ธก์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ Wallston & Wallston๋“ฑ์ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ํ†ต์ œ์œ„ ์ฒ™๋„๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๊ณ  ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ ์ •๋„๋ฅผ ์ธก์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ National Conference of Cancer Nursing์—์„œ Rectal Cancer(์ง์žฅ์•”) ํ™˜์ž๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ œ์ •ํ•œ Quality of Life Scale(O.L.S)๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ํ˜ˆ์•กํˆฌ์„ ํ™˜์ž์˜ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์ • ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์ง‘๋œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์ „์‚ฐํ†ต๊ณ„์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹ค์ˆ˜, ๋ฐฑ๋ถ„์œจ, ์ตœ์†Œ๊ฐ’, ์ตœ๋Œ€๊ฐ’, ํ‰๊ท , ํ‘œ์ค€ํŽธ์ฐจ, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation Coefficient ๋“ฑ์˜ ํ†ต๊ณ„๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. 1. ๋‚ด์™ธ์  ํ†ต์ œ์œ„ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์˜ ์„ฑํ–ฅ์€ ์ตœ์†Œ 1์ ์—์„œ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 6์ ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ๋ถ„ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž์˜ ๋‚ด์ ์„ฑํ–ฅ์€ ์ตœ์†Œ๊ฐ’์ด 1.17, ์ตœ๋Œ€๊ฐ’์ด 6.00 ์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ‰๊ท ์ด 4.48, ํ‘œ์ค€ํŽธ์ฐจ 0.95๋กœ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž๋“ค์˜ ๋‚ด์  ์„ฑํ–ฅ์ด ํ‰๊ท ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋†’์Œ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด์—ˆ๊ณ  ์™ธ์  ์„ฑํ–ฅ์€ ์ตœ์†Œ๊ฐ’์ด 2.00, ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ฐ’์ด 5.25์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ํ‰๊ท  3.79, ํ‘œ์ค€ํŽธ์ฐจ 0.68๋กœ ๋‚ด์  ์„ฑํ–ฅ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚ฎ๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค. 2. ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ ์ •๋„๋Š” ์ตœ์†Œ 0์ ์—์„œ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 10์ ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ๋ถ„ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ, ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž์˜ ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ ์ •๋„๋Š” ์ตœ์†Œ๊ฐ’์ด 1.60, ์ตœ๋Œ€๊ฐ’์ด 9.25์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ํ‰๊ท  5.14, ํ‘œ์ค€ํŽธ์ฐจ 1.60์œผ๋กœ ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์€ ํŽธ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. 3. ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž์˜ ๋‚ด์™ธ์  ํ†ต์ œ์œ„ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ถ„์„ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋‚ด์  ์„ฑํ–ฅ๊ณผ ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” ํ†ต๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์˜ํ•œ ์ˆœ์ƒ๊ด€ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์œผ๋ฉฐ(r=.30, p<.01) ์™ธ์  ์„ฑํ–ฅ๊ณผ ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” ํ†ต๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์˜ํ•œ ์—ญ์ƒ๊ด€ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ ๋‹ค(r=-.16, p<.05). ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋‚ด์  ํ†ต์ œ์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋†’์„์ˆ˜๋ก ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ์ด ๋†’๊ณ  ์™ธ์  ํ†ต์ œ์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋†’์„์ˆ˜๋ก ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ์ด ๋‚ฎ์•˜๋‹ค. 4. ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž์˜ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์  ํŠน์„ฑ์ค‘ ๊ฐ€์ • ์›”์ˆ˜์ž…์ด ๋†’์€ ์ง‘๋‹จ์ด ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ์ด ๋†’์€ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์œผ๋ฉฐ(F=5.97, p<.05) 100๋งŒ์› ์ด์ƒ๊ตฐ, 60๋งŒ์› ์ด์ƒ 100๋งŒ์› ๋ฏธ๋งŒ๊ตฐ, 30๋งŒ์›์ด์ƒ 60๋งŒ์› ๋ฏธ๋งŒ๊ตฐ, 30๋งŒ์› ๋ฏธ๋งŒ๊ตฐ์˜ ์ˆœ์œ„๋กœ ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ์ด ๋†’๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๊ณ , ์ข…๊ต๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž ์ง‘๋‹จ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž๋ณด๋‹ค ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ์ด ๋†’์€ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค(t=2.16, p<.05). ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ ์œผ๋กœ, ๋‚ด์™ธ์  ํ†ต์ œ์œ„ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ ์„ฑํ–ฅ๊ณผ ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ ์ •๋„์™€๋Š” ์œ ์˜ํ•œ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ํ˜ˆ์•กํˆฌ์„ ํ™˜์ž๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด์ ์„ฑํ–ฅ ์ผ์ˆ˜๋ก ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ๋†’์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์™ธ์ ์„ฑํ–ฅ์ผ์ˆ˜๋ก ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์•˜๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž์˜ ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ์„ ์ฆ์ง„์‹œ๊ท€๊ณ  ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๊ฐ„ํ˜ธ ์ค‘์žฌ์— ์žˆ์–ด ํ†ต์ œ์œ„ ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ œ์–ธํ•œ๋‹ค. A Study of the Relationship Between the Internal - External Locus of Control and Quality of Life Kang, Kyung Ah Department of Nursing, The Graduate School of Yonsei University (Directed by Professor Kim, Cho - Ja, Ph.D.) Because chronic disease is not curable but only controllable, patients who suffers from a chronic disease may have physical, mental and social problems for the rest of their lives. This is particularly important when hemodialysis therapy is used for patients with chronic renal failure. Hemodialysis is recognized as an effective procedure but only as one in which the main symptoms are mitigated and life prolonged, that is, it is an allopathic treatment, not a cure. And the hemodialysis patient who lives dependently on hemodialysis, has complications, friars of death, serious economic problems and experiences depressive feelings even after a long period of treatment. In addition to the illness there is a loss of function of body organs and that makes the patient feel inferior. The main factor influencing all of these human behaviors is personality and personal behavior for health depends on personality. The locus of control developed by Rotter contains the concept that man has an internal-external locus of control. According to the results of studies on locus of control in personality, people with an internal locus of control do not have the emotional problems that those with an external locus of control have. Those with an external locus of control show feelings of insecurity, depression and melancholy. These studies indicate that mental conditions differ according to the person's internal-external locus of control. So this study was designed to provide data for psychiatric nursing care for the patient on hemodialysis. The aim was to examine the relationship between lotus of control and quality of life, which is a measure of satisfaction with daily life. The subjects for this study were 140 patients receving hemodialysis at one university hospital, two general hospitals and three private clinics for hemodialysis therapy in Seoul. The data were collected during the period from April 15, 1990 to April 30, 1990, and were obtained by use of a questionare and an interview. The instruments used for this study were for locus of control, the health locus of control scale developed by Wallston & Wallston and for quality of life, the Quality of Life Scale originally designed for rectal cancer patients by The American National Conference on Cancer Nursing. The writer modified the latter to make it suitable for hemodialysis patients. The data were analyzed by use of descriptive statistics: mean: standard deviation: t-test: ANOVA: Pearson Correlation Coefficient: using the SPSS program. The results of this study are as follows: 1. The locus of control of the subjects showed a distribution from a minimum of 1 to a maximum of 6. The internal locus of control had a mean score of 4.48, a standard deviation of 0.95, a minimum score of 1.17, and a maximum score of 6.00. This shows that the internal locus of control is higher than the mid point on the scale. And The external locus of control had a mean score of 3.79, a standard deviation of 0.68, a minimum score of 2.00 and a maximum score of 5.25. The external locus of control score was lower than the internal locus of control. 2. The quality of life showed a distribution from a minimum of 0 to a maximum of 10, a mean score of 5.14, a standard deviation of 1.60, a minimum score of 1.60, and a maximum score of 9.25. The quality of life score was low in comparison with other studies using this scale. 3. The result of this study of the relationship between locus of control and quality of life indicated a significant correlation between interval locus of control and quality of life(r=.30, p<.01). There was a negative correlation between external locus of control and quality of life(r=-.16, p<.05). Therefore the higher the internal locus of control, the higher the quality of life, and the higher the external locus of control, the lower the quality of life. 4. When the demographic characteristics of the subjects were examined, it was fecund that the higher monthly income, the better quality of life(F=5.97, p<.05), and when a religion was considered, the quality of life was higher(t=2.16, p<.05). In conclusion, this study showed a deep relationship between locus of control and the quality of life : the higher the internal locus of control, the higher the quality of life, and the higher the external locus of control, the lower the quality of life. Therefore, if the quality of life is to be improved in patients on hemodialysis therapy the locus of control must be considered in psychiatric nursing ears. [์˜๋ฌธ] Because chronic disease is not curable but only controllable, patients who suffers from a chronic disease may have physical, mental and social problems for the rest of their lives. This is particularly important when hemodialysis therapy is used for patients with chronic renal failure. Hemodialysis is recognized as an effective procedure but only as one in which the main symptoms are mitigated and life prolonged, that is, it is an allopathic treatment, not a cure. And the hemodialysis patient who lives dependently on hemodialysis, has complications, friars of death, serious economic problems and experiences depressive feelings even after a long period of treatment. In addition to the illness there is a loss of function of body organs and that makes the patient feel inferior. The main factor influencing all of these human behaviors is personality and personal behavior for health depends on personality. The locus of control developed by Rotter contains the concept that man has an internal-external locus of control. According to the results of studies on locus of control in personality, people with an internal locus of control do not have the emotional problems that those with an external locus of control have. Those with an external locus of control show feelings of insecurity, depression and melancholy. These studies indicate that mental conditions differ according to the person's internal-external locus of control. So this study was designed to provide data for psychiatric nursing care for the patient on hemodialysis. The aim was to examine the relationship between lotus of control and quality of life, which is a measure of satisfaction with daily life. The subjects for this study were 140 patients receving hemodialysis at one university hospital, two general hospitals and three private clinics for hemodialysis therapy in Seoul. The data were collected during the period from April 15, 1990 to April 30, 1990, and were obtained by use of a questionare and an interview. The instruments used for this study were for locus of control, the health locus of control scale developed by Wallston & Wallston and for quality of life, the Quality of Life Scale originally designed for rectal cancer patients by The American National Conference on Cancer Nursing. The writer modified the latter to make it suitable for hemodialysis patients. The data were analyzed by use of descriptive statistics: mean: standard deviation: t-test: ANOVA: Pearson Correlation Coefficient: using the SPSS program. The results of this study are as follows: 1. The locus of control of the subjects showed a distribution from a minimum of 1 to a maximum of 6. The internal locus of control had a mean score of 4.48, a standard deviation of 0.95, a minimum score of 1.17, and a maximum score of 6.00. This shows that the internal locus of control is higher than the mid point on the scale. And The external locus of control had a mean score of 3.79, a standard deviation of 0.68, a minimum score of 2.00 and a maximum score of 5.25. The external locus of control score was lower than the internal locus of control. 2. The quality of life showed a distribution from a minimum of 0 to a maximum of 10, a mean score of 5.14, a standard deviation of 1.60, a minimum score of 1.60, and a maximum score of 9.25. The quality of life score was low in comparison with other studies using this scale. 3. The result of this study of the relationship between locus of control and quality of life indicated a significant correlation between interval locus of control and quality of life(r=.30, p<.01). There was a negative correlation between external locus of control and quality of life(r=-.16, p<.05). Therefore the higher the internal locus of control, the higher the quality of life, and the higher the external locus of control, the lower the quality of life. 4. When the demographic characteristics of the subjects were examined, it was fecund that the higher monthly income, the better quality of life(F=5.97, p<.05), and when a religion was considered, the quality of life was higher(t=2.16, p<.05). In conclusion, this study showed a deep relationship between locus of control and the quality of life : the higher the internal locus of control, the higher the quality of life, and the higher the external locus of control, the lower the quality of life. Therefore, if the quality of life is to be improved in patients on hemodialysis therapy the locus of control must be considered in psychiatric nursing ears.restrictio
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