Relationship of resilience and organizational commitment in dental hygienists

ABSTRACT Objectives : The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the resilience and organizational commitment of dental hygienists for the impr ovement of organizational performance. Methods : A self-reported questionnaire was filled out by 323 dental hygienists from May 2 to June 5, 2014. The collected data were analyzed by a statisti cal package SPSS WIN 12.0. Corresponding Author Myung-Sook ChoDepartment of Dental HygieneSuwon Women's University72 Onjeong-ro Kwonsun-guSuwon-si Gyeonggi-do441-748, Korea.Tel : +82-31-290-8126Fax : +82-31-290-8042E-mail : mscho@swc.ac.krResults : The dental hygienists had the highest score in relationship(4.09), and had the lowest score in communicative competence(3.29). In organizational comm itment, they had the highest score in affective commitment(3.20). There were statistically s ignificant differences in that regard according to age(p<0.001), marital status(p<0.05) and career(p< 0.001). The organizational commitment varied significantly with age(p<0.05) and career(p<0 .01), and normative commitment significantly varied with the number of work days(p<0.05) and c areer(p<0.05). There was a significant correlation between the resilience and organizational commitmen t of the dental hygienists(p<0.001).Conclusions : The organizational commitment of the dental hygienists was b etter when they had a better resilience, and that resilience made a contributio n to the improvement of organizational commitment in the clinical dental hygienists.Key Words : dental hygienists, organizational commitment, resilience색인 : 조직몰입, 치과위생사, 회복탄력성