한국학교ㆍ지역보건교육학회지 (The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education)
- 제13권2호
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- Pages.119-146
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- 2012
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- 1975-7697(pISSN)
청소년의 비만, 우울, 자아존중감 및 신체 이미지가 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향
The Effect of obesity, depression, self esteem, body image on adolescents' life satisfaction
- 문재우 (한세대학교 인문사회학부)
- Moon, Jae-Woo (Department of Social Welfare, Hansei University)
- 투고 : 2012.07.24
- 심사 : 2012.08.22
- 발행 : 2012.08.31
초록
Objectives: The purposes of this study were to investigate the life satisfaction, obesity, depression, self esteem, body image of adolescents by their demographic characteristics, to analyze factors impacting on life satisfaction, and to provide basic data to intervention programs for bright and healthy development. Methods: The data in this study came from the Korea Youth Survey Data collected through questionnaires from 10,156 students. To investigate the causal relationship between each variable presented in the research model, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe's test, correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis were carried out by using SPSS Ver. 18.0. Results: The most impacting factor on adolescents' life satisfaction were the self-esteem and depression, followed by the economic level, regular exercise, and regular eating. In conclusion, the strongest factors that influenced adolescents' life satisfaction were self-esteem and depression. Also we found that regular eating, regular exercise, and adequate sleep were the important causes of raising adolescents' life satisfaction. Conclusions: In order to enhance the adolescents' life satisfaction, we should make an effort to increase self-esteem, to prevent obesity, and to reduce depression through regular exercise and eating, adequate sleep. Therefore, it is important to recognize the importance of regular exercise and eating through health education. In addition, it is needed desperately to develop sleeping education program and to efforts to ensure sleeping right of adolescents.