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KMID : 1134820070360070840
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
2007 Volume.36 No. 7 p.840 ~ p.848
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Correlations among Life Stress, Sleep, Anthropometric Measurement and Nutrient Intakes of College Students
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Sung Min-Jung
Chang Kyung-Ja
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Abstract
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This study was performed in order to investigate the stress levels, sleep, anthropometric measurement and nutrient intakes their correlations of college students. General characteristics, stress scores using a stress test, sleep scores using a sleep test, anthropometric measurement, body composition using Inbody 3.0 and nutrient intakes using 3-day recalls were measured in 353 subjects (183 males and 170 females). Mean total stress score of the male students was 68.2±45.0 and that of the female students was 86.5±48.7. Stress for study, future, economic and value-related factors were higher than other factors in both male and female students. Female students were more stressed than male in friend, family, study, future and value-related factors. Mean sleeping time and sleep scores of the male students were 7.0 hrs and 40.6±5.7, respectively and that of the female students were 7.1 hrs and 41.5±5.3, respectively. Mean height, weight, percent body fat (PBF), and waist-hip ratio (WHR) of the male students were 174.8 cm, 73.3 kg, 19.0% and 0.84, respectively. Mean height, weight, PBF, and WHR of the female students were 161.7 cm, 55.3 kg, 28.7% and 0.81, respectively. Mean energy and protein intakes of the male students were 2026.3 kcal (77.9% EER) and 83.0 g (150.9% RI) and those of the female students were 1538.2 kcal (73.2% EER) and 60.7 g (134.9% RI), respectively. In male students, sleep duration, professor and future problem showed significantly negative correlation (p＜0.05). For both male and female students, in correlations between sleep scores, life stress experience frequency and importance, the total scores showed significantly negative correlation (p＜0.01). Sleep scores (sleep quality) have more significant correlation than sleep duration in life stress. In male students, correlations between economic problem and weight, waist circumference and hip circumference showed significantly negative correlation. In female students, correlations between different gender problem and body mass index (p＜0.05), PBF (p＜0.01), WHR (p＜0.01) and obesity degree (p＜0.05) showed significantly negative correlation while correlation between study problem and PBF (p＜0.05), WHR (p＜0.05) showed significantly positive correlation. In male students, there were significantly positive correlations between life stress experience frequency and carbohydrate, calcium, iron, vitamin A; correlation between importance and calcium, iron as well as correlation between total life stress scores and iron (p＜0.05). In female students, correlation between life stress experience frequency and thiamin along with correlation between importance and thiamin showed significant negative correlation (p＜0.05). College students need to practice good life habits for the purpose of correctly managing life stress.
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KEYWORD
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life stress, sleep, anthropometric measurement, nutrient intakes, college students
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