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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2012.13.2.734

Psychosocial Stress and Related Factors among High School Students in a City  

Shin, Eun-Sook (Department of Health Administration, Joongbu University)
Cho, Young-Chae (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Chungnam National University School of Medicine and Research Institute for Medical Sciences)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.13, no.2, 2012 , pp. 734-740 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the degree of psychosocial stress and its related factors. The self-administered questionnaires were delivered to 514 high school students of both sexes in Daejon city during the period from April 1 to May 31, 2011. As a results, the degree of psychosocial stress of study subjects was 6.4% in healthy group, 72.4% in latent stress group, 21.2% in high risk stress group. The high risk stress group was significantly high in the group of worse relation with friend, lower satisfaction with the school life, none of siblings and lower satisfaction with the home life. The odds ratio of the high risk stress group significantly increased in the worse relation with friend, lower satisfaction with the school life, none of siblings and lower satisfaction with the home life than their respective counterparts. Multiple regression analysis showed that the major variables of influence on psychosocial stress included satisfaction of school life, friendship with the school fellow, number of siblings and satisfaction of home life.
Keywords
Psychosocial stress; High school students;
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