The Relationship between Empathy Ability and Work Consciousness according to the DISC Behavioral Types of Some Dental Hygiene Students

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Objective: This study analyzes the relationship between DISC behavior type, empathy, and career preference among dental hygiene students enrolled in the Department of Dental Hygiene, and analyzes factors that affect career preference.
Methods: A survey was conducted on a total of 245 students attending the Department of Hygiene.
Results: Empathy ability was found to be 3.54 for cognitive empathy and 3.42 for emotional empathy, and was similarly high in the stable and sociable types among the DISC behavior types. In terms of job preference, the D type and C type preferred honor, while the I type preferred aptitude and interest. The S type most strongly preferred stability and advancement.
Conclusion: In terms of correlations, cognitive empathy was significantly positively correlated with affective empathy, interest in aptitude and interest, and preference for stability and advancement, and affective empathy was significantly correlated with preference for honor and preference for stability and advancement. Hierarchical regression was performed to investigatethe effects of each factor on job preference. Cognitive preference and DISC profiles affected job preference, but affective empathy did not affect job preference.