Izumi Maya, Akifusa Sumio
School of Oral Health Sciences, Kyushu Dental University, 2-6-1, Manazuru, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka 803-8580, Japan.
Int J Dent. 2023 Sep 27;2023:8880952. doi: 10.1155/2023/8880952. eCollection 2023.
To examine the self-compassion of dental hygiene students in Japan and the correlation between their self-compassion and uneasiness about their professional future.
This study was conducted from May to September 2021. Students were invited from three colleges and one university in Fukuoka Prefecture to take the survey. Participants provided information regarding demographic variables (e.g., gender and year of study) and answered six questions regarding feeling uneasy about one's future, matters of learning, and what might happen after graduation. Self-compassion was assessed using the Japanese short version of the self-compassion scale (SCS), with the positive- and negative-SCS subdomains. Resilience was measured using the bidimensional resilience scale with the subdomains of innate and acquired resilience. For the statistical analysis, participants were divided into the "yes" group, where members felt uneasy and the "no" group, where members did not feel uneasy.
Data were obtained from 464 participants (response rate: 96.3%). The scores of total-, positive-, and negative-SCS were 36 (12-56), 18 (6-29), and 19 (6-30), respectively; 55.2% of students felt uneasy about their professional future. There was a statistically significant difference in scores for positive- and negative-SCS and innate resilience between the "yes" and "no" groups. Binomial logistic regression analysis revealed that when negative-SCS increased by one point, the risk of feeling uneasy about one's professional future was 1.12 times higher (95% confidence interval: 1.07-1.17) after adjusting for resilience and the answers to the remaining five questions.
Our findings suggest that the negative factor of self-compassion is related to increasing the risk of feeling uneasy about one's professional future as a dental hygienist.
研究日本口腔卫生专业学生的自我同情及其与职业未来不安感之间的相关性。
本研究于2021年5月至9月进行。邀请了福冈县三所专科院校和一所大学的学生参与调查。参与者提供了人口统计学变量（如性别和年级）信息，并回答了六个关于对未来感到不安、学习事项以及毕业后可能发生的事情的问题。使用日本版自我同情量表（SCS）简版评估自我同情，包括积极和消极SCS子领域。使用具有先天和后天复原力子领域的二维复原力量表测量复原力。为进行统计分析，参与者被分为感到不安的“是”组和不感到不安的“否”组。
共获得464名参与者的数据（回复率：96.3%）。SCS总分、积极SCS和消极SCS得分分别为36（12 - 56）、18（6 - 29）和19（6 - 30）；55.2%的学生对其职业未来感到不安。“是”组和“否”组在积极和消极SCS得分以及先天复原力方面存在统计学显著差异。二项逻辑回归分析显示，在调整复原力和其余五个问题的答案后，消极SCS每增加1分，对职业未来感到不安的风险高1.12倍（95%置信区间：1.07 - 1.17）。
我们的研究结果表明，自我同情的消极因素与作为口腔卫生工作者对职业未来感到不安的风险增加有关。
