New Graduate Nurses’ Clinical Competence, Clinical Stress, and Intention to Leave: A Longitudinal Study in Taiwan

Table 3

Relationships between measured variables.

	preCC	postCC	CC3	CC6	CC12	CS3	CS6	CS12	ITL3	ITL6
preCC	1.00
postCC	.14	1.00
CC3	.14	.35**	1.00
CC6	.08	.19	.29**	1.00
CC12	.12	.33**	.61**	.40**	1.00
CS3	−.01	−.21*	−.20*	−.09	−.01	1.00
CS6	.07	−.17	−.06	−.01	−.08	.59**	1.00
CS12	.06	−.03	.00	−.19	−.16	.54**	.64**	1.00
ITL3	.05	−.02	.03	.05	.02	.17	.05	.17	1.00
ITL6	−.04	−.02	.09	.14	.02	.22	.36**	.25	.47**	1.00
ITL12	.03	.08	−.02	.25*	.03	.04	.03	.05	.40**	.59**

preCC: pretest clinical competence; postCC: posttest clinical competence; CC3, 6, 12: clinical competence in the third, sixth, and twelfth months; CS3, 6, 12: clinical stress in the third, sixth, and twelfth months; ITL3, 6, 12: intention to leave in the third, sixth, and twelfth months. ^∗𝑃<.05; ^∗∗𝑃<.001.