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Satisfied employees are closely related with organizational success and performance, leading job satisfaction to become a key employee attitude. Employees feel greater satisfaction when they have freedom and independence to make work-related decisions. However, employees become dissatisfied with their job when they cannot balance their work and family lives due to competing demands. This study aims to investigate the mediating effect of work family conflict on the relationship between job autonomy and job satisfaction. The study was conducted with 270 participants. The study data was collected using Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire, Job Autonomy Scale and Work Family Conflict Scale. The study results demonstrated that job autonomy had a positive effect on job satisfaction, whereas work-family conflict had a negative mediating effect on this relationship between job autonomy and job satisfaction.

Particular personality traits motivate individuals to act entrepreneurially and to exercise entrepreneurial activities, which include but not limited to high need for achievement, innovativeness, propensity to risk-taking, tolerance to ambiguity and internal locus of control (Thomas & Mueller, 2000; Utsch & Rauch, 2000). Therefore, the present study aimed to compare personality traits based on the attitudes of university students toward entrepreneurship. This study was conducted in a foundation university in Turkey. The study data was collected using questionnaires. According to the study results, students with entrepreneurial intention are more innovative, have higher need for achievement and greater internal locus of control than those who do not have such intention.

In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between oral hygiene and socio-economic status. Study data were obtained from 160 patients admitted to a private dental clinic within one month using a questionnaire which consisted of socio-economic variables. Dental examination was performed by a dentist and oral hygiene was assessed by hygiene sticks using the Quegley-Hein Index. Statistical analysis was performed using ttest, variance analysis, and Kruskal-Wallis test. Our study results suggest that increased education status is positively associated with oral hygiene and poor oral hygiene is associated with reduced income per capita. Preventive dentistry should be supported to increase the awareness of the individuals with low and moderate income.

Dental caries are known to represent one of the most important causes of severe health problems both in children and in adolescents. Poor oral hygiene is closely associated with the child's feeding, sleeping, leaning and self-confidence. In this study, we aimed to identify the relationship of oral hygiene with the social life experienced by 6-12 years-old children, and to introduce preventive treatment to these children at an early stage. Study data were obtained from a questionnaire containing demographic questions and conducted on parents of 120 children, and also from results of oral finding following oral medical examinations performed by the dentist. Bacteria plaque index (BPI) which was determined following examination performed by the dentist was also considered as research data. According to results of this research, we are of the opinion that health authorities in Turkey should encourage preventive and implementation of development programs towards public and school-based mouth-dental health care, and that early preventive treatments measures acquired by children would greatly help to reduce state health expenditure on oral health. Furthermore, this study is considered as a preliminary investigation for a project to be carried out by the researchers.

In this study entrepreneurship intentions of pupils, who are registered in different programmes of Vocational High School, have been measured. Related literature about the entrepreneurship reviewed and questions of the survey are based on self efficacy concept. Our aim is to interpret the future opinions of pupils about entrenepreneurship through self-efficacy. Entrepreneurship lectures have been taught in nature of entrepreneuership and small business management both Faculties and Vocational High Schools in Turkey.The study is applied on the pupils of Business Management, Computer Programming, Cookingand Convenience Food, State and State Management, Hair Care and Beauty programme. We studied the entrepreneurship intentions through programme and pupil profiles. This intentions were benchmarked with theoric hypotheses and some of attractive results were reached.