A Study on the Awareness of Dental Hygiene Freshmen of Major and Occupation

치위생과 신입생들의 전공 및 직업의식에 관한 연구

The purpose of this study was to examine the perception of dental hygiene freshmen about their major and their occupational consciousness. The subjects in this study were 361 dental hygiene freshmen at three different colleges in Gyeonggi province. After a survey was conducted, the collected data were analyzed with SPSS WIN 11.5 program. The findings of the study were as follows: 1. As for their view of occupation, the students made a well-paying job a priority(M = 2.97), and looked upon an occupation as a means of living(M = 1.60). Regarding the use of the profits of dental hospitals and clinics, they believed that they should reinvest their profits in a purchase of machinery, an expansion of facilities or technical development(M = 2.00). 2. Concerning relations between their motivation of college entrance and their satisfaction with their major, 96.6 percent of those who found their major satisfactory or quite satisfactory considered it to right up with their alley. 82.6 percent of them chose their major to get a stable job, and 62.8 percent of them did it through the advice of their families, relatives or regular teachers. 59.1 percent of them did it in consideration of their college entrance examination scores. Every student who were pressed for economic reasons to choose their major were unsatisfied with it. Thus, their motivation of college entrance made a statistically significantly wide difference to their satisfaction with major(p < 0.01). 3. They got a mean of 3.10 in occupational consciousness. By sub- category, they scored highest in interpersonal and work ethics(3.19 respectively). They got a mean of 3.04 in academic ethics, and got a mean of 2.99 in professional ethics, which was the lowest mark. 4. As to connections between their general characteristics and occupational consciousness, their occupational awareness was significantly different according to their motivation of college entrance and information they acquired at the time of college entrance(p < 0.05). In regard to the relationship of their satisfaction with major to their occupational awareness, their occupational consciousness statistically significantly varied with their department, their willingness of staying as a dental hygienist, the future prospect of dental hygienist (p < 0.01).

본 연구는 치위생과 신입생들의 전공 및 직업의식을 알아보기 위해 경기 지역에 위치한 3개 대학의 치위생과 신입생 361명을 대상으로 설문조사 하였으며, SPSS WIN 11.5 프로그램을 이용하여 분석한 결과, 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 직업에 관련된 견해에서 직장을 선택하는 조건으로는 보수가 많은 직장 M = 2.97점으로 가장 우선적으로 선택하였고, 직업에 대한 견해로는 생활수입을 위한 수단 M = 1.60점, 치과병의원 수익에 대한 견해로는 기계구입,시설확장, 기술개발 등 발전에 재투자해야 한다가 M = 2.00점으로 각각 가장 우선적인 선택으로 조사되었다. 2. 입학동기에 따른 전공만족와의 관계에서는 매우 만족과 만족하는 경우 적성에 맞는것 같아서 96.6%, 안정된 직업을 얻기 위해서 82.6%, 가족 친지 담임교사의 권유에 의해서 62.8%, 입학성적에 맞추어서 59.1%순이었으며, 경제적 사정으로 진학한 경우는 불만족 100%로 조사되어 입학동기에 따른 전공에 대한 만족도는 통계적으로 매우 유의한 차이가 있었다(p < 0.01). 3. 전반적인 직업의식은 3.10점이었고, 각 유형별 직업의식은 대인관계 직업의식 및 근로윤리 직업의식이 각각 3.19점으로 가장 높았으며, 학술관련 직업의식 3.04점, 전문직종 직업의식 2.99점으로 가장 낮게 조사되었다. 4. 일반적 특성에 따른 직업의식 정도에서는 입학동기와 입학당시의 정보에서 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었고(p < 0.05), 전공 만족에 따른 직업의식 정도에서는 전공학과, 직업유지, 직업전망 및 전공교환에서 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다(p < 0.01).