Objectives:
@EN The purposes of this study are to identify the current status of the mental health of Chosun university(CU) entrants and to explore the relationship between some demographic and psychosocial variables and psychopathology.
@ES Methods:
@EN Korean version of symptom checklist-90-revision(SCL-90-R) and 'the questionnaire for the survey on 1994 CU entrants' developed by Hack-Ryul Kim et. al, including authors were administered to entrants(N=865) admitted to CU in 1994.
@ES Results:
@EN 1. The percentage of entrants tentatively classifiable as psychologically maladjusted was 5.5% of the total subjects surveyed, and was higher in males than in females. 2. But in that percentage the differences were not statistically
significant
between a) colleges, b) the groups who did or didn't experience failures in a college-entrance exam, and c) the groups who do or don't have living parents, respectively. 3) of several psychosocial variables, self-perception was the most powerful
predictor variable on the psychopathology of entrants, the interaction effect of the intimacy with parents and high school life was also significant. 4) As for sex, its direct effect on psychological maladjustment and certain scales in SCL-R was
significant and it also played a role as a significant moderator in the relationship between psychosocial variables and psychopathology.
@ES Conclusion:
@EN It is concluded that the percentage of entrants tentatively classifiable as psychologically maladjusted in CU is lower than in some other universities, and that these results provide important basic data for the mental health of university
students
in terms of prevention and treatment.
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