J Dent Hyg Sci.  2021 Sep;21(3):168-177. 10.17135/jdhs.2021.21.3.168.

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

• Park JH
• Lim SR

• KMID: 2520988
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.17135/jdhs.2021.21.3.168

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 dental hygienist, and to and to utilize it as basic data for efficient manpower management through job performance.

Keyword

Dental hygienists; Job engagement; Job performance; Job satisfaction; Psychological ownership