This study was conducted in order to determine health effects of socio-psychological stresses in Taegu Area from march 1 through march 31, 1998. Three hundred and thirty three subjects(168 males and 165 females) were randomly selected and interviewed by trained interviewers according to questionnaires.
The results are summarized as fellows ;
1. Health statuses by age, education religion, marital status, occupation and family income were significantly different.
2. The factors which had significant influences on Health status ware vitality, depression and general feeling of subjects´ health.
3. Health status were directly influenced by the age(direct effect=-0.014), vitality(direct effect=0.473), and general feeling of subjects´ health(direct effect=0.222), but, was indirectly influenced by education degree(indirect effect=0.010), income(indirect effect=0.039), and mental depression(indirect effect==0.069). The variabilities which were both directly and indirectly influenced, were the age(direct effect=0.014, indirect effect=0.002), vitality(direct effect=0.473, indirect effect=-0.071).
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