The Relaiıonship Between Critical Thinking Levels and Book Reading Habits of Nursing Students

Objective: this study was conducted with a descriptive research design to determine the relationship between critical thinking levels and book reading habits of nursing students.methods: the population of the study consisted of 555 students, studying at the faculty of health sciences department of nursing, atatürk university, erzurum, turkey, between february 7 and march 9, 2012. without any sample selection, 325 students who agreed to participate in the research were included in the study sample. personal information form, which was developed by the researchers, california critical thinking disposition inventory, and the attitude scale towards reading habit were used for data collection. number and percentage distribution, arithmetic mean, pearson correlation analysis and cronbach's alpha internal consistency test was used in the evaluation data. results: the study found that for students, the highest sub-dimension of attitude scale toward book reading habits was the benefit sub-dimension (4.18±0.92) and the lowest sub-dimension (2.61±0.53) was the fondness sub-dimension. the attitude scale toward book reading habits total mean score of students was found to be 3.77±0.82. california critical thinking disposition scale mean score of students was found to be 254±0047.56 and critical thinking disposition score to be at moderate level. morever, significant correlation was found between the attitude scale toward book reading habits sub-dimension mean scores and critical thinking disposition scale mean score of students (p<0.05). conclusions: it was found that students' critical thinking dispositions and the book reading habits were at medium levels, and the relationship between them was there significant and positive.