女子学生における生活習慣が心身症状および自尊感情に及ぼす影響

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The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of lifestyle on self-esteem and psychosomatic diseases in female junior college students. Subjects were 113 female junior college students (mean age 19.1±3.2 yr) They answered a questionnaire about lifestyle,psychosomatic diseases, and self-esteem. The questionnaire about lifestyle considered nutrition, hours of sleep, hours of watching TV, hours of using PCs and mobile telephones,and use of luxury goods. The questionnaire about psychosomatic diseases evaluated mental health, cardiology, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, and gynecology. The self-esteem questionnaire required the subjects to choose only one answer from four choices: "strongly applies" to "does not apply at all," which had numerical ratings from 4 to 1. A total point score was then calculated for each subject.Self-esteem scores were significantly higher in subjects who lived by themselves than in subjects who lived with their families (p<0.01); in smoking than in non-smoking subjects (p<0.05); and in subjects with high psychosomatic disease scores compared with subjects with low scores (p<0.05). Subjects with high psychosomatic disease scores had significantly lower nutrition scores compared to subjects with low psychosomatic disease scores (p<0.01).In conclusion, these results indicate that sufficient nutrition intake was stabilized the shape of a psychosomatic disease.