Table 4 Correlation between moral sensitivity, moral distress, and caring behavior

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
1. Moral sensitivity	1
2. Patent-oriented care	0.458‡	1
3. Professional responsibility	0.510‡	0.491‡	1
4. Conflict	0.658‡	0.130	0.164	1
5. Meaning	0.773‡	0.142	0.161	0.338‡	1
6. Benevolence	0.521‡	-0.130	-0.070	0.146	0.472‡	1
7. Moral distress	0.307‡	0.164	0.276†	0.216*	0.120	0.169	1
8. Futile care	0.230*	0.155	0.272†	0.141	0.055	0.114	0.808‡	1
9. Nursing practice	0.237†	0.168	0.200*	0.201*	0.083	0.080	0.833‡	0.488‡	1
10. Institutional and contextual factor	0.251†	0.077	0.231*	0.155	0.134	0.159	0.835‡	0.565‡	0.667‡	1
11. Limit to claim the ethical issue	0.310‡	0.130	0.147	0.203*	0.177	0.259†	0.769‡	0.525‡	0.585‡	0.614‡	1
12. Physician practice	0.264†	0.107	0.215*	0.202*	0.105	0.166	0.791‡	0.511‡	0.579‡	0.584‡	0.645‡	1
13. Caring behavior	0.185*	0.460‡	0.235†	0.085	0.053	-0.161	0.065	0.138	-0.053	-0.022	0.190*	0.066	1

p<.05;
p<.01;
p<.001