This study was designed to explore the life stresses experienced by students in colleges and universities and the way how to cope with them.
Participants were 475 college and universities in five major cities, such as Seoul, Deagu, Taejon, Chonju, an...
This study was designed to explore the life stresses experienced by students in colleges and universities and the way how to cope with them.
Participants were 475 college and universities in five major cities, such as Seoul, Deagu, Taejon, Chonju, and Kangrung in Korea and a proved scale in terms of the reliability and validity were utilized. Ths scale includes the campus life stress scale, the multi-dimensional coping scale and the health related questionnaire.
The major investigations for the present study were: (1) differences of stress experienced by college students according to the demographc classifications such as gender, grade, area, and religion (2) differences of coping style to the health related action, and (3) any relations between campus life stress and coping style.
The major findings of the present study are as follow:
(1) There are differences or stress experienced by college students according to the demographic classifications such as gender, grade, and area. Specially in gender a woman have more stress than a man, and in grade, freshman and sophomore have a lot stresses in family relationship, and juniors and seniors straggle with a relationship with professor and their future. Finally, in region, there are some discrepancies in economic, studying and future problem.
(2) In differences of coping style according to the health related action, it is showed that drinking and smoking affect to the coping style. Specially, There are huge differences between drinker and non-drinker, and between steady exerciser and not.
(3) Students are coping with life stress in different style.
Based on the results, it is expected to be developed a life stress counseling program and effective coping program for college students. Also, I hope that this research can be used as a basic material to minimize an individual, social bad effects caused by life stress, and as an understanding the various college students’ life stress and finding proper copying style.