University Students' Health Behavior, Depression, and Ego-resilience

Keum Suk Park; Hae Min Yoon

doi:10.12934/jkpmhn.2016.25.2.113

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Park and Yoon: University Students' Health Behavior, Depression, and Ego-resilience

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2016; 25(2): 113-122.

Published online: 30 June 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2016.25.2.113

University Students' Health Behavior, Depression, and Ego-resilience

Keum Suk Park¹, Hae Min Yoon²

¹College of Nursing, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea.

²Division of Student Support, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Korea.

Corresponding author: Park, Keum Suk. College of Nursing, Ajou University, 164 World cup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-380, Korea. Tel: +82-33-760-8097, Fax: +82-33-760-8098, ksp110@hanmail.net

Received 19 March 2016 Revised 14 May 2016 Accepted 7 June 2016

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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 objectives of the study were to examine university students' health behavior, depression, and ego-resilience in order to understand the relationship between these variables, and to identify factors influencing ego-resilience.

Methods

Data were collected from a sample of 302 students attending G University. The data collection period was from October 28, 2015 to December 21, 2015. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regression with the SPSS Statistics version 23 Program.

Results

The number of close friends was weakly correlated with depression and ego-resilience: specifically, the number of close friends had a weak negative correlation with depression, and a weak positive correlation with ego-resilience. Factors significantly influencing the students' ego-resilience were depression, type of residence, frequency of exercise, and gender, with a total explanatory power of 18%.

Conclusion

These findings indicate that intervention programs to improve ego-resilience should be developed. Research into ego-resilience should be replicated with students from a variety of cultural background and diverse study areas.

Keywords: University students, Health behavior, Depression, Ego-resilience

Figures and Tables

Table 1

Characteristics of the Participants (N=302)

Table 2

Level of Depression and Ego-resilience (N=299)

Table 3

Differences of Depression and Ego-resilience by General Characteristics (N=302)

^*Scheffé test, p<.05.

Table 4

Correlation among Ego-resilience, Depression, and Number of Close Friends (N=299)

Table 5

Influencing Factors on Ego-resilience among University Students (N=299)

^*Dummy variables: gender (female); type of residence (living with family); eating a balanced diet (no); exercise frequency (almost didn't).

Notes

This work was supported by CK-Ⅰ (University for Creative Korea) fund of Gangneung-Wonju National University in 2015.

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