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Korean Society of Dental Hygiene (한국치위생학회)
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The relationship between emotional intelligence and cultural competency of dental hygiene students

치위생(학)과 학생의 감성지능과 문화 역량과의 관련성

  • Park, Min-Seon (Department of Dental Hygiene, Graduate School of Hanseo University) ;
  • Jang, Jong-Hwa (Department of Dental Hygiene, College of Health Science, Dankook University)
  • 박민선 (한서대학교 대학원 치위생학과) ;
  • 장종화 (단국대학교 보건과학대학 치위생학과)
  • Received : 2017.12.31
  • Accepted : 2018.05.10
  • Published : 2018.06.30
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Abstract

Objectives: The study was a cross-sectional research to examine dental hygiene students' multi-cultural experiences, emotional intelligence and cultural competency and to understand the correlations among them. Methods: The study was conducted from September $1^{st}$ to October $31^{st}$ 2016, based on the survey of 449 students in the department of dental hygiene at 7 Universities. The questionnaire consisted of 57 questions including general characteristics (n=7), multi-cultural experiences (n=7), emotional intelligence (n=16) and cultural competency (n=27). Results: Each score of students' emotional intelligence and cultural competency is 3.43 and 3.01 respectively in 5-point scale. An analysis of correlations between emotional intelligence and cultural competency shows that the higher the emotional intelligence, the higher the cultural competency (r=0.342). The factors affecting the cultural competency include use of emotions (${\beta}=0.327$, p<0.001), control of emotions (${\beta}=0.254$, p=0.001), frequency of multi-cultural media (${\beta}=0.221$, p<0.001) and experience of multi-cultural class (${\beta}=0.221$, p=0.002). The modified explanatory power in this model is 28.2% (F=10.856, p<0.001). Conclusions: There was a positive correlation between emotional intelligence and cultural competency, and the contacts with multi-culture and experience of class are identified as the affecting factors. Dental hygiene students should acquire theoretical experiences regarding the multi-culture through curriculum or continuous educations and it is necessary to promote such educations in order to develop and apply the programs for the enhancement of emotional intelligence.

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