Relations among Frequency of Eating alone, Subjective Health Status and Depression in Korean College Students
AUTHORS
In-Kyoung Kim,Department of Nursing, Hanseo University
Sang-wook Park,(Corresponding author) Division of Educational Evaluation, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, OREA
ABSTRACT
This study is a descriptive survey study to identify the behavior of the Korean college student's eating alone and to verify the relations among the frequency of eating alone, the subjective health status and the depression. The research subjects were 194 persons. For the analysis method, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, Pearson's correlation coefficient were used. In the results of study, While the frequency of eating alone showed the significant negative correlation with the subjective health status (r=-.299, p<.001) and the significant positive correlation with the depression (r=.661, p<.001), the subjective health status showed the significant negative correlation with the depression (r=-.154, p=.033). It was observed that the eating alone has correlation with the subjective health status and the depression. The results of this study suggested that the basic data for the development of efficient nursing intervention toward the dietary habit and attitude should be prepared to change the cognition on the eating alone, which may cause the long-term health problem and to maintain the physical and mental health of Korean college students.
KEYWORDS
Alone, Depression, Eat, Habit, Health, Student
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