| Author (Year) [No.] | Research method | Participants/Samples |
| English articles (n = 23) |
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| McCain, N. L. (1985) [16] | Cross-validation design | 422 students |
| Geraldine, E. E. (1987) [17] | Information analyses | 42 studies |
| Dobbs, K. K. (1988) [18] | Corwin’s Nursing Role Conception Scale | 103 baccalaureate nursing students |
| Gray, M. (1999) [19] | Grounded theory, longitudinal study | 17 nursing students |
| Kessel, C. A. (2006) [20] | Mixed methods study | 105 nursing faculty |
| Shinyashiki, G. T. (2006) [21] | Questionnaire research | 278 nursing students |
| Holley, K. A. (2009) [9] | Qualitative case study | 19 students and 4 faculty members |
| Condon, E. (2010) [22] | Qualitative study utilizing interview data | 8 Japanese nursing students and 2 faculty members |
| Zamanzadeh, V. (2014) [23] | Cross-sectional study | 130 first-year nursing students and 100 fourth-year nursing students |
| Joselin, M. (2016) [24] | Review | 6 models |
| Michael, T. (2016) [25] | Discourse analysis | 49 nursing students |
| De Swardt, H. C. (2017) [26] | Sequential mixed-methods design | 12 experts |
| Dinmohammadi, M. R. (2017) [27] | Exploratory qualitative approach y | 14 nursing students |
| Moradi, Y. (2017) [28] | Systematic review | 24 articles |
| Yazdannik, A. (2017) [29] | Mixed method | 71 nursing students, 20 nursing educators, and 5 nursing board staffs |
| Gibbon, B. (2018) [30] | Focus group interviews | 18 final year nursing students |
| Safari, Y. (2018) [31] | Descriptive-analytical study | 80 nursing students |
| Lee, J. J. (2019) [32] | Grounded theory approach | 16 nursing students, 4 nurses and 2 university lecturers |
| Salisu, W. J. (2019) [33] | Systematic review | 8 studies |
| Alharbi, M. (2020) [34] | Descriptive qualitative study | 16 undergraduate nursing students |
| Kim, S. (2020) [35] | Cross-sectional design | 412 nursing students |
| Pai, H.-C. (2021) [36] | Quantitative study | 108 nursing students |
| Taylan, S. (2021) [37] | Phenomenological approach | 10 nursing students |
| Japanese articles (n = 34) |
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| Takahashi, T. (1996) [3] | Quantitative research | 393 freshmen students, 300 senior students, and 88 faculty members |
| Osawa, S. (2005) [7] | Questionnaire research | 39 nursing students |
| Miyawaki, M. (2007) [38] | Individual and group interviews | 4 nursing students |
| Miyawaki, M. (2008) [39] | Semi-structured interviews | 4 nursing students |
| Omoto, M. (2009) [40] | A qualitative study utilizing interview data | 4 nursing university students |
| Nishina, Y. (2010) [41] | Questionnaire research | 90 nursing students |
| Tsukamoto, N. (2010) [42] | Questionnaire research | 88 nursing students |
| Kitajima, Y. (2011) [43] | Questionnaire research | 1043 nursing students |
| Ishimitsu, F. (2012) [44] | Questionnaire research | 83 nursing students |
| Takeda, K. (2012) [45] | Questionnaire research | 204 nursing students |
| Decker, K. (2013) [46] | Questionnaire research | 112 nursing students |
| Kitajima, Y. (2013) [47] | Questionnaire research | 131 nursing students |
| Nishina, Y. (2013) [48] | Questionnaire research | 56 nursing students |
| Shiino, M. (2013) [14] | Questionnaire research | 80 nursing students |
| Takeda, K. (2013) [49] | Questionnaire research | 115 nursing students |
| Yamamoto, K. (2013) [50] | Questionnaire research | 259 nursing students |
| Ishikawa, M. (2014) [51] | Questionnaire research | 859 nursing students |
| Michihiro, M. (2014) [52] | Questionnaire research | 260 nursing students |
| Shinohara, S. (2014) [53] | Questionnaire research | 187 nursing students |
| Ohue, T. (2015) [54] | Questionnaire research | 56 nursing students |
| Nakanishi, J. (2016) [55] | Descriptive analysis | 67 nursing students |
| Wakasugi, S. (2016) [56] | Questionnaire research | 623 nursing students |
| Kitajima, Y. (2017) [57] | Questionnaire research | 473 new nurses |
| Kojima, N. (2017) [58] | Questionnaire of Basic social competency | 134 nursing students |
| Ootori, K. (2017) [59] | Questionnaire research | 112 nursing students |
| Goto, M. (2018) [60] | Questionnaire research | 444 nursing college students |
| Kiriake, M. (2018) [61] | Questionnaire of Basic social competency | 69 nursing students |
| Okuda, R. (2019) [62] | Questionnaire of Basic social competency | 162 nursing students |
| Saito, I. (2019) [63] | Questionnaire research | 104 nursing students |
| Yamamoto, Y. (2019) [64] | Questionnaire of Basic social competency | 55 nursing students |
| Ito, K. (2020) [65] | Questionnaire of Basic social competency | 441 nursing students |
| Komatsu, M. (2020) [66] | Semi-structured interviews | 5 nursing students |
| Tanaka, S. (2020) [67] | Questionnaire research | 177 nursing students |
| Ueda, M. (2021) [68] | Questionnaire research | 12 nursing students |