고등학생의 스트레스와 신체· 정신건강 및 자살생각과의 관계

Abstract

Purpose: This study is to identify correlations between stress of high school students and their physical and mental health and suicidal thinking. Method: The period of data collection was from April 1st. to 16th. 2006 and the subjects of the study were 356 high school students in Gwangju city. Instruments: The instruments of the study included the stress instrument which was developed by Kim and Jeon (1993) and Park (1998), and reorganized by Moon (2005); Lee's reorganized edition of physical symptom measurement by Thomas(1986), Gurin, Veroff, & Feld (1960); Lee's reorganized edition of Derogatis' SCL (1986) for mental health measurement; and Woo's reorganized edition (1998) of suicide ideation measurement by Beck, Kovacs & Weissman(1979). The collected data were analysed through descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Pearson's Correlation and Sheffe post hoc test with a use of SPSS 12.0. Results: The results of this study were presented as follows: 1. The degree of stress in accordance with general characteristics of the subjects showed no signifiant statistical difference, while the degree of physical health in accordance with general characteristics showed statistically signifiant difference in sex, living together with parents, number of monthly eat-out, friends and friendship. The degree of mental health in accordance with general characteristics showed statistically signifiant difference in sex, living together with parents, number of monthly eat-out, friends and friendship. The degree of ideation suicide in accordance with general characteristics showed statistically signifiant difference in number of monthly eat-out, friends and friendship. 2. As a result of analysing correlations between stress of subjects, physical and mental health and suicidal ideation, correlation between stress and physical health, correlation between stress and mental health, correlation between stress and suicidal ideation, correlation between physical health and mental health, correlation between physical health and suicidal ideation, and correlation between mental health and suicidal ideation showed statistically signifiant correlations and the highest correlations were found between physical health and mental health. To sum up the results of the study, there was a correlation between stress of the subjects and their physical and mental health and suicidal ideation. And there was a significant differences between mental health and suicidal ideation in accordance with number of monthly eat-out, friends and friendship, which indicates that friendship and families work as important in mental health of high school students and their suicidal ideation. Therefore, for intervention in promotion of mental health and prevention of suicide, it is suggested that families and friends can be effective means to deal with it. Also in respect to health management of high school students, prevention and effective management of stress are important and it is thought that we have to find out methods to decrease suicidal ideation through activation of physical and mental health promotion programs.