Factors related to Problem Behaviors in High School Girls

Yeon-Hwan Park; Hye-Jin Hyun; Su Jeong Yu; Do-Hwa Byen

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Park, Hyun, Yu, and Byen: Factors related to Problem Behaviors in High School Girls

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2011; 22(3): 315-324.

Published online: 4 April 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2011.22.3.315

Factors related to Problem Behaviors in High School Girls

Yeon-Hwan Park¹, Hye-Jin Hyun², Su Jeong Yu³, Do-Hwa Byen⁴

¹Associate Professor, College of Nursing & The Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University, Korea.

²Professor, Department of Nursing, Kangwon National University, Korea.

³Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Sangji University, Korea.

⁴Lecturer, Samcheok Nurseaid Education Center, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Yu, Su Jeong, Department of Nursing, Sangji University, 660 Usan-dong, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do 220-702, Korea. Tel: 82-33-738-7622, Fax: 82-33-838-7652, ryusj@sangji.ac.kr

Received 17 August 2011 Revised 17 September 2011 Accepted 19 September 2011

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between problem behavior, school stressor and family strength in high-school girls.

Methods

Data were collected from 200 high school girls in 2008. Data were analyzed with SPSS/WIN 18.0.

Results

There was a positive correlation between problem behavior and school stressor. There was a negative correlation between problem behavior and family strength. The predictors of problem behavior were school stressor, family strength, and monthly family income and these factors explained 43.0% of problem behavior.

Conclusion

The findings of this study suggest the necessity of developing nursing intervention programs for enhancing high-school girls' skills in interpersonal relationship and communication to decrease school stressor and increase family strength.

Keywords: Students, Behavior, Schools, Psychological stress, Family

Figures and Tables

Table 1

General Characteristics of the Subjects (N=200)

Table 2

Mean Score of the Specific Type of Problem Behaviors and School Stressor, Stress Coping Strategies, and Family Strength (N=200)

Table 3

Correlations among Family Strength, School Stressor, Stress Coping, and Problem Behaviors (N=200)

Table 4

Factors Influencing on Problem Behaviors of the Subjects (N=200)

Notes

This study was supported by research fund of Health Care Research Center in Kangwon National University.

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