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http://dx.doi.org/10.17135/jdhs.2014.14.3.424

Factors Which Affect Mental Health of Dental Hygiene Students  

Jeon, Eun-Suk (Department of Dental Hygiene, Choonhae College of Health Sciences)
Hwang, Su-Hyun (Department of Dental Hygiene, Choonhae College of Health Sciences)
Ko, Hyo-Jin (Department of Dental Hygiene, Choonhae College of Health Sciences)
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Journal of dental hygiene science / v.14, no.3, 2014 , pp. 424-432 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of study is to understand the relation with factors which affect the mental health and to investigate self-esteem, department satisfaction and career stress among dental hygiene students. The study performs self-administered questionnaires survey from March to May, 2013, among dental hygiene students of college in Busan and Ulsan with the convenience sampling and finally analyzes 376 questionnaires. The study performs the path analysis to analyze the impact of the mental health on self-esteem, department satisfaction and career stress and the correlation among these variables. The analysis result shows that the self-esteem most affects and the direct effect on the mental health. The factor which affects the self-esteem is the department satisfaction show direct effect, also career stress has direct and indirect effect. Self-esteem is important factors in the department satisfaction, career stress and mental health. Thus, a stable mental health for students and groups of individuals who need to take advantage of professional counseling and career exploration program structured should be configured.
Keywords
Career stress; Department satisfaction; Mental health; Self esteem;
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