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KMID : 0922320170240030325
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Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Care Nursing
2017 Volume.24 No. 3 p.325 ~ p.335
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Factors Influencing Mental Health among University Students: An Ecological Perspective
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Hyun Myung-Sun
Yoo Moon-Sook
Lim Ji-Young
Park Ji-Eun
Seo Eun-Ji
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study investigated the factors influencing mental health among university students based on ecological perspectives.
Method: The subjects for this study were 416 students in two colleges in K province. The instruments used for measurement were: Symptom Checklist (Derogatis, 1977), Ego Resilience Scale (Block & Block, 1980), Perceived Stress Inventory (Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, 1983), and Social Support Scale (Park, 2002). The data was analyzed using the IBM SPSS program.
Result: Ego resilience and perceived stress as intrapersonal factors and friends’ support as interpersonal factor were the significant predictors of mental health. It was showed that these factors explained 47% of mental health.
Conclusion: This study suggests that the factors influencing mental health are both intrapersonal and interpersonal factors. Thus, the findings of this study provide the basic data to develop a program for mental health of university students based on ecological perspectives.
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KEYWORD
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Mental health, Ecology, Social support, Life stress
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