경희대학교 의과대학 기생충학교실, *생리학교실, **대구 보건 전문대학 임상병리과
Dept. of parasitology, *Dept. of Physiology, KyungHee University sity Medical School, **Dept. Clinical Pathology
It has been well known that most high-school students have been suffering due to the excessive burden(or stress) of study to get into university in Korea. Many studies have been reported on the stress of elementary and high-school students, However, there has not been enough study on the effects of stress, both the kinds and coping methods, on university students. The purpose of our study was to investigate the perceive sources and relieving methods of the stress in a population of university students in Korea. Four hundred forty one students(188 male, 253 female) were investigated randomly using the approadching method of Van Kaam. Questionnaires were made to describe a circumstance or an environment when they felt a stress. The data was analyzed by Colaizzi method. The results we obtained are as follows: The highest source of stress was shown to be study, at 42.6%. The second was human relationships, at 35.4%. The third was conflicts with their families, at 21.8%. The most frequent coping method of the stress was revealed to be recreation such as singing a song, dancing, watching a movie or video tape followed by positive thinking. These values were 37.9% and 32.9% respectively. The third coping method was revealed to be talking with other people, at 26.8%. From these results we concluded that the highest source of stress in university students can be still study, and the most frequent coping method of the stress for the Korean university students can be recreation.