As focusing on 360 male and female high school students of whole graders in Ansan city, Gyeonggi province, this study researched health-related life styles, dietary habits, processed food intake, and dietary behaviors under stress, depending on stress...
As focusing on 360 male and female high school students of whole graders in Ansan city, Gyeonggi province, this study researched health-related life styles, dietary habits, processed food intake, and dietary behaviors under stress, depending on stress factors (school life, home life, interpersonal relationship, oneself), so that it is to identify relevance.
After the research procedures, this study verified research results as follows.
First, in case of the health-related life styles depending on stress factors, this study found that sleep satisfaction, the number of exercise, and subjective health awareness are low in a group of high-stressed school life. In a group of low-stressed home life, conversation time with parents and family meal frequency are high and subjective health awareness is high. In groups of high-stressed interpersonal relationship and oneself, the number of exercises, conversation time with parents, family meal frequency, and subjective health awareness are low.
Second, in case of score of dietary habits depending on stress factors, a group of low-stressed school life had the highest score as 40.4, and a group of high-stressed oneself had the lowest score as 34.7. It is the group of oneself stress, which showed difference of dietary habits depending on stress level. A high-stressed group had significantly low stress score compared to the other two different groups (p<0.001), and the other stress factors such as school life, home life, and interpersonal relationship did not have significant difference.
Third, in case of processed food intake depending on stress factors, a group of high-stressed school life had more frequently candy, chocolate, ramen, frozen food, and processed cheese (p<0.05). In case of functional beverage, a group of low-stressed school life had more frequently intake (p<0.01). The other stress factors such as Home life, interpersonal relationship, and oneself did not show significant difference.
Fourth, this study found that dietary behavior changes under stress showed significant difference depending on stress level in every stress factor such as meal size, appetite, and strength change between foods. This study found that the number of intake frequency of night snack, processed food, and caffeine showed significant difference under stress of school life and home life.
Fifth, total stress score showed significantly negative correlation with sleep satisfaction, the number of exercises, conversation time with parents, subjective health awareness, and dietary habits (p<0.05). Home life stress showed significantly negative correlation with family meal frequency (p<0.05). Dietary habits had significantly negative correlation with home life stress and oneself stress (p<0.05).
Sixth, in case of correlation between stress factors and processed food intake, processed cheese commonly showed significantly positive correlation in every stress factor. School life stress showed significantly positive correlation with candy, chocolate, ham, sausage, and frozen food (p<0.05). The group of oneself stress showed significantly negative correlation with ice cream, fruit and vegetable beverage, and functional beverage (p<0.05).
Therefore, according to the stress factors of adolescents, this study suggested that nutrition education should be needed in order to form desirable health-related life styles and change them into desirable dietary behaviors.