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Correlation between Appearance Management Behaviors and Mental Health Level of Female University Students for U-mental Healthcare

  • Choi, Hye-Jung (Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Daegu Health College) ;
  • Woo, Hee-Sun (Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Suwon Women's University)
  • Received : 2019.01.21
  • Accepted : 2019.02.25
  • Published : 2019.03.29
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Abstract

It is a descriptive study for the relationship between appearance management behaviors and mental health of some female college students. We analyzes 433 self-administered questionnaires from March to June 2017 for female students who enrolled in three-year colleges in Seoul and Gyeonggi province, South Korea. The conclusion is as follows. We used IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0(SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) for the analysis by person's characteristics, t-test and one way ANOVA, multiple regression analyses. The second-year grade shows higher points than the first-year grade in appearance management behaviors and mental health level(p<0.001, p<0.05). In addition, when students has the higher level of the household as the humanities students, they have higher level of mental health level(p<0.001). The most influential factors affecting the mental health level of female college students are domestic economic level and cosmetic management behavioral factors. The level of mental health was higher in the middle and upper group of the domestic economic level. When they do more cosmetic management behavior, they have lower the mental health level. In conclusion, it is deemed necessary for students to attend intensive and sufficient counseling with an academic advisor. The continuous attention through school counseling management services depending on grade, domestic economy level, and cosmetic management behavior is necessary in order to enhance the level of mental health for female students. In addition to that, the college needs to develop individual customized psychology counseling and educational programs through U-mental healthcare service in order to lessen the great pressure of sensitive information and provide mental consultation. The college needs to consider students' characteristics and needs from the results of this study. It is considered that a smart mental healthcare program will be needed to identify mental health of the individual through the systematic approach.

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Fig. 1. Level of Appearance Management Behaviors of General Subjects.

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Fig. 2. Level of Mental Health Level of General Subjects.

Table 1. Appearance Management Behaviors and Mental Health Level to General subjects (N=433)

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Table 2. Correlation between Appearance Management Behaviors and Mental Health Level (N=433)

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Table 3. Factors of Mental Health Level

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