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http://dx.doi.org/10.17703/IJACT.2019.7.1.35

The Experience of Stress in Female College Students  

Kim, Jungae (Chodang University, Nursing Department)
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International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology / v.7, no.1, 2019 , pp. 35-42 More about this Journal
Abstract
This purpose of this study was to identify the meaning and structure of the experiences of women who were most stressed when they live and how they respond to stress when they were stressed.Six Female college students aged 29 years were interviewed for a total of three times until data was saturated and collected until no more data were collected. Interview data was processed through the analysis and interpretation process using the Giorgi phenomenological research method. As a result, 45 semantic units was derived, these were divided again into 12 subcomponents, and then divided into 3 categories. The stress situation of female college students was a way to escape from the stress that arises in situations that were difficult to overcome due to their inability to cope with, and that they were trying to take a walk or listen to music. A young women aged group, female college students becomes the center of the future family. Therefore, their emotional health will be more important than any other class. In conclusion, this study suggests the provision of a young women's tailed program that could help the female college students to experience the stress in the life task positively and to help the stress crisis as a positive experience of life.
Keywords
Cross-sectional descriptive research; Emotional Happiness; Health Promotion Behaviors;
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