Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Original Article

Job Stress and Organizational Effectiveness of Dental Technicians: Nam Gyu Park, Young Joon Seo, Nam Soo Park, Ki Nam Jin; Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2003;15(1):84-94. Published online March 31, 2003; DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.2003.15.1.84

OBJECTIVES
To investigate the relationship between job stress and the variables associated with the organizational effectiveness of dental technicians.
METHODS
The job stresses were divided into the following six components; somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, and hostility. The organi-zational effectiveness variables in this study included job satisfaction, occupational commitment, organizational commitment and intent to leave. The sample used in this study consisted of 248 dental technicians working in hospitals and dental laboratories. The data were collected with self-administered questionnaires between March 16 and April 29 in 2002, and the results analyzed with ANOVA and multiple regression analysis.
RESULTS
Firstly, job stress of dental technicians was found to be significantly different in relation to the number of workers at the workplace and the working hours. The level of job stress was the highest when the number of workers were more than 10, or when the daily working hours were over 12. Secondly, of the six variables of job stress, five variables of somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, and hostility were found to have significant negative correlations with job satisfaction. Thirdly, all six job stress variables were found to have significant negative correlations with the occupational and organizational commitments of the dental technicians. Finally, depression was the only job stress variable found to have a significant effect on the dental technicians' intent to leave.
CONCLUSIONS
The results of this study indicate that personal and organizational efforts are very important to improve the organizational effectiveness in reducing work related stress. Organizational support, especially for managing the depression of dental technicians is recommended.

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