Determination the impact of individual innovation perceptions of health sciences students on career decisions

This research is a descriptive study in a survey model aimed to determine the relationship between individual innovation perceptions and career decisions of the students of Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing and Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Deparment. Personal data form, career decision scale and individual innovation scale were used as data collection tools.Statistical evaluation SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 21.0 statistical program were used for frequency (F), percentage (%), arithmetic mean and standard deviation. The independent samples t test was used for the comparison of the two groups averages and one way ANOVA was used for the comparison of the means of more than two groups for the individual innovation and career decision characteristics. ANOVA The Scheffe test was used to determine the source of the difference. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to test the structural validity of the individual innovation and career decision scales used in the study. Considering the mean scores of individual innovation perceptions = 66.47 and SD = 7.25, participants were found to be in the "interrogative" category. It was observed that individual innovation perceptions and career decisions did not differ significantly according to gender, age, grade point average, income status, working status of mother and father, but there were significant differences according to the departments and classes they studied. In the results of individual innovation scale sub-factors and career decision sub-factors, the highest relationship was found between resistance to change and career decisions. Accordingly, as students' resistance to change decreases, the clarity in career decisions increases. There was a positive relationship between openness to experience and opinion leadership and career decisions. Accordingly, students' openness to experience and increased perceptions of opinion leadership increase their career decisions. A positive, significant and high relationship was found between openness to experience and informed career decisions Another important result is that there is a positive significant relationship between opinion leadership and informed career decisions. Accordingly, as students' perceptions that have the characteristics that make them ahead of other individuals in the group around them, conscious career decision increases. As students' perceptions of individual innovation increase, conscious career decisions increase, unconscious career decisions and decisions based on environmental factors decrease.