Clinical supervision and nursing students' professional competence: support-seeking behaviour and the attachment styles of students and mentors

摘要

Aims. To examine whether the interdependent attachment style of students is positively related to their support-seeking behaviour during supervision and whether their overdependent and counter-dependent attachment styles are negatively related to it. Second, to determine whether the mentors' attachment styles moderate the relationship between the students' support-seeking behaviours and their professional competence, such that this relationship is stronger when supervisors are characterized by higher independent attachment style.