Table 1 Factorial structure and factor loadings (FLs) for the MCDC items
Factors | Item | FL |
|---|---|---|
Helping others α = 0.95 | Help in diagnosis | 0.78 |
Enable others feel good | 0.78 | |
Make oral and teeth health of society better | 0.77 | |
Better service to society | 0.77 | |
helping others | 0.75 | |
Take place in the health/oral health services | 0.74 | |
Take place in preventive health care | 0.73 | |
Help in healing the inequalities in health services | 0.70 | |
Develop facilities of health care | 0.70 | |
Create beautiful smiles | 0.69 | |
Take place in primary care health service. | 0.68 | |
Like medicine | 0.66 | |
Wish a career in public service. | 0.65 | |
Dentistry health services are insufficient | 0.43 | |
Benefits α = 0.95 | Good salary | 0.81 |
No financial difficulty | 0.81 | |
Respected job | 0.70 | |
Adjustable working hours according to personal life | 0.67 | |
Regular working hours | 0.67 | |
Balance between personal and work life. | 0.64 | |
Employment diversity | 0.60 | |
Regular job | 0.59 | |
Self-employment | 0.56 | |
No obligatory service after graduation | 0.56 | |
Consistent with personal lifestyle | 0.50 | |
Like working environment of dentists | 0.48 | |
Dental experience α = 0.90 | Impact of my dental treatments | 0.84 |
Impact of successful dentist appointments | 0.80 | |
Impact of my dental brace treatment | 0.75 | |
Impact of my personal teeth experience | 0.73 | |
Impact of my pediatric dentist | 0.67 | |
Impact of the dentist that I observed | 0.67 | |
Impact of my oral surgeon | 0.61 | |
Impact of the dentists that I know | 0.49 | |
Impact of the dental research | 0.46 | |
Influence of others α = 0.76 | Influence of family members | 0.79 |
Influence of friends | 0.77 | |
Encouragement of my family members | 0.72 | |
Encouragement of my teachers | 0.70 | |
Influence of career days | 0.40 | |
Artistic skills α = 0.92 | Being talented in trim works | 0.79 |
Trust in hand skills | 0.77 | |
Wish to become artistic in my career | 0.69 | |
Wish to service by an artistic approach | 0.59 | |
Better than medicine α = 0.68 | Mora advantageous than medicine in pandemic period | 0.66 |
More advantageous than medicine in terms of study duration | 0.66 | |
Wish not to have an office job | 0.58 | |
Communication with people α = 0.92 | Being a social person | 0.59 |
Being good in communication with people | 0.56 | |
Like communicating with patients | 0.44 | |
HEIE score α = 0.88 | No option after seeing my HEIE score | 0.92 |
My HEIE score was consistent only with this option | 0.92 |