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There are growing needs among medical consumers for advanced medical service due to improved national economy and the development of medical technology, and the diversification and specialization of dental hygiene occupation are being accelerated in response to their needs. Dental hygienists are under heavy stress because of their complicated role performance, and their job stress results in lowering job satisfaction and self-efficacy and raising turnover rate. To get rid of job stress, they should put their energy into self-development. The purpose of this study was to examine the state of self-development among dental hygienists in an effort to find a workable solution and suggest how to eliminate their barriers to self-development. The subjects in this study were 213 dental hygienists in the region of Busan, on whom a self-administered survey was conducted. The findings of the study were as follows: 1. The dental hygienists investigated got 1.98 in self-development, which showed that they didn't put enough effort to self-development. 2. As for the primary motivation of self-development, 50.2 percent wanted to get rid of stress. Concerning satisfaction level, the majority of the respondents expressed just an mediocre level of satisfaction or responded they were dissatisfied. 3. The dental hygienists got 2.98 in constraints to self-development. Among the types of constraints, they faced lots of economic constraints , and there weren't a lot of human constraints. 4. The respondents who faced more time constraints or personal barriers had less time to pursue job-oriented, art-oriented or personal self-development. Those who were confronted with more economic barriers had less time to pursue job-oriented or personal self- development, and the respondents who faced more human barriers had less time to pursue art-oriented self-development. Those who were confronted with more social barriers had less time to pursue job-oriented or art-oriented self-development. Given the above-mentioned findings of the study, dental hygienists should be given more opportunities to put their efforts into self- development to relieve job stress, reduce turnover rate and boost job involvement and job satisfaction. Besides, what makes it difficult for them to pursue self-development should accurately be grasped to improve the efficiency of human resources management of dental institutions.