대학생의 스트레스 수준과 식행동의 관계

Relationship between Stress Level and Dietary Behavior among University Students

A survey was carried out to investigate relationship between stress level and dietary behavior of university students, in order to obtain baseline data for the development of an education program. Subjects included 214 male and female students who attended Chungbuk National University. The gender distribution of subjects was 43.0% males and 57.0% females, and BMI showed 16.8% overweight and 9.4% obesity. For the 26 items of stress test, stress scores were highest in the order of body images(2.37), future career(2.29) and the same gender friend(2.20) out of 4.0 in females, and academic problem(2.30), future career(2.21) and economic problem(2.20) in males. For dietary behaviors, skipping breakfast(48.1%) and 'eating too much in the evening' were the main problems of them. In the relation between stress and dietary behavior, higher stress level influenced negatively on dietary behavior significantly : especially each stress due to future career, body image, academic or economic problem influenced on the degree of concern about high caloric food consumption and regret for eating too much. In conclusion, an education program should be developed and offered for each high stress group, in order to improve dietary behavior for university students.