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The Effects of Parents and Community Safety on the Health of Middle School Students

중학생의 건강에 대한 부모 및 지역사회 안전도 효과

  • Cha, Donghyuk (Department of Child Development Family Studies, Seoul National University) ;
  • Ok, Sun Wha (Department of Child Development Family Studies, Seoul National University)
  • 차동혁 (서울대학교 아동가족학과) ;
  • 옥선화 (서울대학교 아동가족학과)
  • Received : 2013.09.29
  • Accepted : 2014.03.26
  • Published : 2014.10.30
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Abstract

Focusing on the holistic concept of health, which embraces both physical and mental health, we investigated the effects of parenting and community factors on the health of 1,248 first- and second-year middle school students, on the basis of the data of the Korean Survey on the Activities and Culture of Youth and Children in 2009. The latent class analysis revealed three types of holistic health groups from the data, named as follows: (1) the healthy group, (2) moderate group, and, (3) fragile group. Then, we analyzed the effects of parenting factors and community safety on these health types according to the students' year in school and their mother' s status of employment. The results showed that the first-year students had consistent parenting effects on their own type of health, while the safety of the community only partly contributed to the probability of affiliation to healthier types. However, in the case of the second-year students, a neglectful parenting style and community safety consistently had significant effects on the students' type of health, while parental concern about an adolescent's health did not contribute to the probability of affiliation to healthier types when only the mother was unemployed. The discussion considers how these results provide basic resources for formulating policies and creating intervention programs for addressing the health problems of adolescents.

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