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KMID : 0608420170300010012
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Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
2017 Volume.30 No. 1 p.12 ~ p.20
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The Influence of Self-esteem and Personality on Perceived Health Status-focusing on Ugandan High School Students
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Koh Myung-Suk
Kang Kyung-Ah
Ko Ja-In
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Abstract
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Purpose: The research is a descriptive study to identify the correlations among perceived health status, self-esteem, and personality and to determine the influencing factors of perceived health status in high school students who live in Uganda.
Methods: Data were collected using a questionnaire from February to May 2014. The participants were 300 students in three high schools in Uganda. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, one way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and stepwise regression analysis using SPSS 21.0.
Results: The scale mean scores (4 scale) for perceived health status, self-esteem, extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, and lie, the last four being the types of personality covered in the study, were 2.27±0.37, 2.27±0.31, 2.13±0.33, 2.55±0.41, 2.36±0.27, and 2.20±0.34, respectively. The variables that showed positive correlations with perceived health status were self-esteem and extraversion and the ones that showed negative correlations with perceived
health status were neuroticism, psychoticism, and lie. Self-esteem, extraversion, and neuroticism were proved to be major influencing factors affecting perceived health status.
Conclusion: These results may be used as supporting data when developing health education programs to improve the health of Ugandan adolescents.
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KEYWORD
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Health , Personality , Self concept , Students
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