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KMID : 0861120130170010013
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Korean Journal of Oriental Preventive Medicine
2013 Volume.17 No. 1 p.13 ~ p.25
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Factors Related to Stress, Coping, and Physical Symptom in High School Girls
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Yang Kyung-Hee
Kim Young-Hee
Park Kum-Sook
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Abstract
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Objectives : This study was conducted to analyze the stress, coping and physical symptoms relevant to factors influencing physical symptoms on high school girls.
Methods : The subjects were 521 high school girls in I city. The data was collected by using structured questionnaire. T-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation and Stepwise-multiple regression were performed by SPSS/PC 17.0.
Results : Study-related stress were higher in the freshmen than sophomore (p=.001). The sophomore have highest level in family (F=5.32, p=.005), friends (F=3.13, p=.044), and appearance-related stress (F=5.49, p=.004). Poor grades in their studies were related to family-related stress (p=.010) and study-related stress (p=.009), They complained severe discomfort, displeasure, and G-I symptom in order. The more physical symptoms were, the more coping with their stress do (p=.001). Factors affecting physical symptoms are study-related stress (β=.38), unhealthy (β=.16), friends (β=.14), active coping with stress (β=.15) and sophomore (β=.11), family (β=.11), and they explained 33.3% of variables.
Conclusions : Students have to learn how to cope with their stress. Therefore, it is needed program development to improve stress management for high school girls.
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KEYWORD
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Stress, Coping, Physical symptom, High school girls
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