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http://dx.doi.org/10.12925/jkocs.2017.34.4.1036

Relation of Mental Health and Health Risk Behaviors in Korean College Students  

Kim, Jae-Hee (Department of Nursing, Daejin University)
Park, Kwang-Hi (School of Nursing, Gacheon University)
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Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology / v.34, no.4, 2017 , pp. 1036-1045 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between mental health and health risk behaviors of college students and to verify that depression has mediating effects in the relation between perceived stress and health risk behaviors. Data were obtained from the 2015 Community Health Survey conducted nationally, and the subjects of this study were 8,422 college students ranging in age from 19 to 29. Rao-Scott Chi-square test, logistic regression analysis, and Sobel test were used for data analysis. The results of the study showed that perceived stress, depression, present smoking, binge drinking, and high risk drinking of college students were associated with sex, age, and monthly household income. Smoking, binge drinking and high-risk drinking were affected by perceived stress, and depression was an influence factor of current smoking and binge drinking. Depression showed partial mediating effect between perceived stress and current smoking and between perceived stress and binge drinking. Such results suggest that a comprehensive behavioral health intervention strategy that covers mental health care of college students is necessary.
Keywords
Mental health; Health behavior; stress; depression; college student;
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