Work-life Balance of Departmental Supportive Personal, Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University

Abstract

This research studied the opinions and compared the work-life balance of the department support staff at the Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University. The study population was 69 department support staff of the Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, and 66 staff were recruited for the study group.  A questionnaire was used for data collection, and the questionnaire was verified for content validity by three experts. The IOC score of the questionnaire was 0.67-1.00, and the reliability test score was 0.928. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics as percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test were used to analyzed the data at the significant level of 0.05. The result showed the work-life balance score of the department support staff at the Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University was high. For details, the score of social integration or collaborations was the highest (3.94±0.60); the job description score was 3.85±0.49; potential development for carrier advancement was 3.70±0.63, and work-life balance was 3.51±0.58. While the salary/welfare score was medium at 3.25±0.67. The hypothesis test demonstrated that the personnel of the groups with different gender, age, education, work experience, and department did not have different opinions in work-life balance in the aspects of job description, salary/welfare, potential development for career advancement, social integration of collaborations, and overall. However, the personnel with different salary and type of personnel had different opinions on work-life balance in the aspects of salary/welfare, and potential development for career advancement (p<0.05).