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KMID : 0613620130330040518
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Health Social Welfare Review
2013 Volume.33 No. 4 p.518 ~ p.546
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The Job-seeking Stress and Addictive Behaviors among College Students: Focused on the Mediating Effect of Anxiety
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Jang Soo-Mi
Kyoung Soo-Young
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Abstract
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While unemployment issue arising from the global economic downturn and the unstable job market is regarded as social problem, college students are under heavy job-seeking stress so that the negative psychosocial consequences happened to them. In this study, a model of the relationship between job-seeking stress and additive behaviors among college students based on Agnew’s general strain theory was tested empirically. A survey was conducted with 446 undergraduate students enrolled in 14 universities in Korea. Through structural equation analysis, the major results are as follows. Firstly, it showed that 17.9% of participants have the internet addiction and 63.5% of participants are regarded as problem drinkers. Secondly, job-seeking stress showed a significant effect on internet addiction but it shows a non-significant effects on drinking problem. Thirdly, mediating effect of anxiety showed in this model. Theoretical and practical implications of job-seeking stress and addictive behaviors among college students are discussed, and future research directions are outlined.
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KEYWORD
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College Students, Job-seeking Stress, Anxiety, Addictive Behaviors, General Strain Theory
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