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KMID : 0380319860380000117
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Journal of Korean Research Institute for Better Living
1986 Volume.38 No. 0 p.117 ~ p.127
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Study on the Relationship between the Youth Adaptation & the Health Problem Complaints
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Abstract
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Adolescence has been identified as a very stressful stage of development due particularly to the "identity crisis" and difficulty dealing with change that seems to be more constant than stability. To assist adolescents deal with this period, one of the nurses´ roles is the identification of life events that contribute to stress.
The purposes of this study were:
1. The identification of life events that were the problems of the youth adaptation.
2. The association between the status of youth adaptation and the health problem complaints.
3. The analysis of the characteristics that are affected by youth adaptation.
The study sample consisted of 700 Ewha Womans University students who were attended a lecture of the family nursing subject during the first semester, 1985.
The tools used for the collection of data were "a youth adaptation rating scale" by Sue Beell, Gayle Schmidt and the Modified Cornell Medical Index.
The data was treated by a computer(S.A.S.) used the ratio value(degree of severity), percentage, mean score, analysis of varience
The results were as follows:
1. The items of the life events that are the problems of the youth adaptation were "Death of a parent" (4.68±0.80), "parents getting a divorce(Separation)" (4.49±0.84), "getting expelled(suspended)"´ (4.34±0.86),
"making career decisions(college, majors)" (4.11±0.91). These items were emotional stresses caused by self anxiety and conflict and lead to difficulties of the freedom of selection and realities of life as a social factors.
2. There was a significant association between the physiological & serial basic needs and physical & mental health complaints, that is, the number of the physical & mental health complaints were higher in the students who did not fulfill the physiological & social basic needs.
3. The affected characteristics of the youth adaptation were age, religion." economic status, birth place, father´s occupation, family system, relation with parents during the growth.
4. A youth adaptation rating scale used in this study as a tool was cronbach´s
α=0.91.
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