In a study of nurses' willingness to care for patients with a contagious disease, it was found that the greater the nurses' spirituality, the greater the willingness to provide care. This finding represents what?
A) No correlation
B) Perfect correlation
C) Positive correlation
D) Negative correlation

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The finding that the greater the nurses' spirituality, the greater their willingness to provide care for patients with a contagious disease suggests a positive correlation. A positive correlation means that as one variable (in this case, nurses' spirituality) increases, so does the other variable (willingness to provide care). In contrast, a negative correlation would mean that as one variable increases, the other decreases. A perfect correlation would mean that there is a direct, linear relationship between the two variables with no variability in the data points. However, it's unlikely that a perfect correlation would be found in this study.

In a Study of Nurses' Willingness to Care for Patients