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Table 4 Multiple linear regression models for the five principal latent factors that drive the influences for final year dental students

From: The emerging dental workforce: why dentistry? A quantitative study of final year dental students' views on their professional career

Factor I: PROFESSIONAL JOB FACTOR

Coefficients a

  

Unstandardized Coefficients

  

95% Confidence Interval for B

Model

 

B

 

Sig.

Lower Bound

Upper Bound

1

(Constant)

-3.046

 

.081

-6.476

.383

 

Sex

.277

 

.089

-.043

.598

 

Age

.078

 

.287

-.066

.222

 

Indian

.195

 

.245

-.135

.526

 

Standard of living important in future prof. choices

.425

 

.004

.143

.708

a. Dependent Variable: Job

Factor II: HEALTHCARE-PEOPLE FACTOR

Coefficients a

  

Unstandardized Coefficients

  

95% Confidence Interval for B

Model

 

B

t

Sig.

Lower Bound

Upper Bound

1

(Constant)

1.266

.809

.421

-1.840

4.372

 

Age

-.065

-.965

.337

-.198

.068

 

Sex

-.197

-1.200

.233

-.524

.129

 

Indian

-.299

-1.759

.082

-.636

.038

 

Importance of family commitments in no. long term sessions

.336

3.800

.000

.161

.511

a. Dependent Variable: Altruism

Factor III: ACADEMIC-SCIENTIFIC FACTOR

Coefficients a

  

Unstandardized Coefficients

  

95% Confidence Interval for B

Model

 

B

 

Sig.

Lower Bound

Upper Bound

1

(Constant)

-1.492

 

.417

-5.123

2.140

 

Age

.047

 

.540

-.105

.199

 

Sex

-.066

 

.735

-.454

.322

 

Indian

.017

 

.934

-.389

.423

 

Team work important in future prof. choices

.218

 

.067

-.015

.452

a. Dependent Variable: Academic

Factor IV: CAREERS-ADVISING FACTOR

Coefficients a

  

Unstandardized Coefficients

  

95% Confidence Interval for B

Model

 

B

 

Sig.

Lower Bound

Upper Bound

1

(Constant)

-3.200

 

.059

-6.517

.118

 

Age

.120

 

.078

-.014

.255

 

Sex

-.001

 

.998

-.348

.347

 

Indian

-.029

 

.876

-.391

.334

 

Important of career opportunities re where work in short term

.189

 

.058

-.006

.383

a. Dependent Variable: Careers Advising

Factor IV: FAMILY-FRIENDS-INFLUENCE FACTOR

Coefficients a

  

Unstandardized Coefficients

  

95% Confidence Interval for B

Model

 

B

 

Sig.

Lower Bound

Upper Bound

1

(Constant)

1.444

 

.374

-1.761

4.649

 

Age

-.050

 

.450

-.182

.081

 

Sex

-.130

 

.450

-.470

.210

 

Indian

-.134

 

.457

-.488

.221

a. Dependent Variable: Family-Friends