Influence of Dental Hygienist’s Job Satisfaction, Psychological Ownership, and Job Engagement on Job Performance / 치위생과학회지

ABSTRACT

Background@#This study is to identify the factors that affect job satisfaction, psychological ownership, and job engagement of dental hygienists on job performance and use them as basic data for manpower management of dental hygienists. @*Methods@#The survey was conducted by 344 clinical dental hygienists working in dental medical institutions. The collected data is PASW Statistics ver. 20.0 was used to analyze. @*Results@#The job satisfaction level of the dental hygienist was 3.38±0.52, and the question that ‘I feel that my ability to solve problems has improved compared to the past.’ was 3.92±0.80. There were significant differences in job satisfaction, psychological ownership, and job engagement according to general characteristics in age, marriage, education, career, current work experience, and position. There were significant differences in job performance according to general characteristics in age, marriage, education, career, current work experience, position, and number of dental hygienists. Factors influencing job performance were practical activities, income, patient relations, absorption, vigor, dedication, and the number of dental hygienists. @*Conclusion@#Finding different ways to use psychological ownership and job engagement through the job satisfaction of a dentalhygienist, and to and to utilize it as basic data for efficient manpower management through job performance.