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KMID : 1023420080080040337
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Journal of Dental Hygiene Science
2008 Volume.8 No. 4 p.337 ~ p.345
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A Study on the Job Stress Factors of Dental Hygienists
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Kim Ji-Hee
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting dental hygienists’s stress in order to provide dental hygienists’s stress management methods. The results of this study were as follows. 1. A sample of 168 dental hygienists were selected to participate in this study. The participate of 66.1% was under 25 old years and 87.5% was unmarried. A majority of he dental hygienists’s job place was clinical areas 86.9% and working experience was 1~4 years(47.6%). A average dental hygienists’s salary was 1,000,000~1,500,000 won/month(63.7%). A average dental hygienists’s working time was under 8 hours/day(57.1%). 5days/week(58.3%) was working and the participate of 78.0% was working on night-time. 2. Dental hygienists’s stress under 25 years old was higher than over 26 years old(p〈 0.05). It was found that dental hygienists was significantly related to stress from less income(p〈 0.05 ), longer working time(p〈 0.01). In job demand areas, Night-time workers(p〈 0.05) and 5days/week(p〈 0.05) worker was more stress than others participates. In job autonomy areas, longer working experience in present dental clinical(p〈 0.01) and higher salary/month(p〈 0.01) were more stress. The job instability of unmarried dental hygienists were more stress than married subjects. In stress of organization system, longer working time/day(p〈 0.05), under 25 years old(p〈 0.01), high salary(p〈 0.05), 5day/week(p〈 0.05) dental hygienists’s stress was higher than others.
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KEYWORD
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Dental clinic, Dental hygienists, Job stress
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