• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.65-77
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• 2008

The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of eating disorder belief and sociocultural attitudes towards appearance on female high school students' eating attitude. Questionnaires regarding eating disorder belief, sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, and eating attitude were administered to 900 1st and 2nd grade female high school students in Gyeonggi Province. Finally 875 questionnaires were collected and statistically analyzed through Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, factor analysis, Pearson's correlation analysis, and hierarchical multiple regression. The main results of the study were as follows: 1) Eating disorder belief, sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, and eating attitude revealed a positive correlation. 2) While control over eating, weight/shape as a means to acceptance, internalization, and awareness were significant predictors of drive for thinness, control over eating, internalization, and weight/shape as a means to acceptance were significant predictors of bulimia. 3) Internalization had a moderating effect on the relationship between eating disorder belief and eating attitude (drive for thinness, bulimia).

• Journal of the Health Care and Life Science
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.201-209
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to grasp the degree of preventive behavior of new infectious diseases in university students and to seek a practical plan for preventive behavior. Methods: The subjects of the study analyzed the factors that influenced the degree of preventive behavior of new infectious diseases in university students enrolled in the university of D city material by applying the factors of the health belief model. Results: Research Results First, Severity factors and preventive behavior intent are associated(β.164). Second, no association between the susceptibility factor and the prevent behavior intent. Third, Self-efficacy factors affected preventive behavior intent the most(β.640). Conclusions: The recommendations of the research results are as follows. In the future, institutional supplements and measures to foster the correct awareness level for new infectious diseases and raise the understanding of public health in a state where the possibility of developing new infectious diseases is high, first, regular survey and analysis, secondly, School health education, thirdly, concrete and practicable measures for one's own health management dimension should be introduced preemptively.