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KMID : 1020220150150061033
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Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene
2015 Volume.15 No. 6 p.1033 ~ p.1041
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Effect of part-time employment experience on adaptation to university life in dental hygiene students
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Shin Seon-Haeng
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Abstract
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Effect of part-time employment experience on adaptation to university life in dental hygiene students
Seon-Haeng Shin
Department of Dental Hygiene, Sahmyook Health University
Corresponding Author
Seon-Haeng Shin, Department of Dental Hygiene Sahmyook Health University 82 Mangwoo(St), Dongdaemun-gu Seoul 130-711, Korea, Tel: +82-02-3407-8622, Fax: +82-02-3407-8639, E-mail: haeng5355@hanmail.net
3 August 2015; Revised: 24 November 2015; Accepted: 11 December 2015
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License
(http://creativecommons.org/license/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided original work is properly cited.
Keyword : adaptation to university life, dental hygiene student, part-time employment
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Objectives: The purpose of the study is to find out the effect of part-time employment experience on adaptation to university life in dental hygiene students.
Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 288 dental hygiene students in Seoul and Gyeonggido from September to October, 2014. The questionnaire consisted of general characteristics of the subjects(5 items), part-time employment experience(6 items), and adaptation to university life(53 items). The instrument for adaptation to university life was adapted from Baker and Sirky and modified by Kwon. Likert 5 point scale adaptation included personal emotion adaptation, academic adaptation, social adaptation, and university environment adaptation. Cronbach’s α was 0.80 in the study.
Results: The adaptation to university life was 3.0 points. The higher the economic level was, the higher the personal emotional adaptation(p<0.001) and academic adaptation were(p<0.05). The adaptation to university life was positively influenced by tuition support by parents and part-time employment(p<0.05). The part-time employment was significantly helpful to future job selection, social adaptation, and university environment adaptation(p<0.001). Economic stability and advantage of future job selection had a positive influence on the adaptation to university life. So the adaptation to university life was proportional to younger age, economic stability, and advantage to future job selection.
Conclusions: It is very important to give a positive motivation and stimulation, and a careful counseling to the students in part-time employment. In order to encourage the part-time employed students, major-related part-time job opening must be given.
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KEYWORD
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adaptation to university life, dental hygiene student, part-time employment
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