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- Research
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Is Your Happiness in Dental Hygiene Linked to Your Personality Type?
- Source
- Today's RDH
- Author
- Katie Gill, RDH, MSDH, PHDHP
- Originally at
- todaysrdh.com(opens in a new tab)
Summary and scoring by The Bell Brief (Dr. Jennifer Bell) using the Drill-Down Protocol. Not the original publisher.
Why it matters for dental
Dental hygienists who want to stay in clinical roles or move into education/admin may use DISC personality insights to match job demands with their traits; the survey found that 64% of respondents scored highest on steadiness.
Key points
- 01
A master's thesis survey of 1,280 U.S. dental hygienists used an abridged 2019 DISC psychometric test to assign dominant personality styles.
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64% of respondents scored as steadiness (S) personalities, 23% as conscientious (C), 8% as influence (I), and 5% as dominance (D).
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Over 84% of respondents reported working primarily in clinical practice; 71 participants (5.5%) stated they were not working at the time of the survey.
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Participants rated career satisfaction on Likert-scale questions; results showed no statistical difference between five-point and three-point scale interpretations.
Who should care
- Staff
- Academia / research
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