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Life satisfaction and happiness associated with depressive symptoms among university students: a cross-sectional study in Korea

BACKGROUND: This cross-sectional study investigated the impact of life satisfaction and happiness, as well as the prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms in a large sample of university students. METHODS: We included 2338 students at 6 universities in 1 metropolitan city and 2 provinces of...

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Autores principales: Seo, Eun Hyun, Kim, Seung-Gon, Kim, Sang Hoon, Kim, Jung Ho, Park, Jung Hyun, Yoon, Hyung-Jun
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6297950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30568720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-018-0223-1
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author Seo, Eun Hyun
Kim, Seung-Gon
Kim, Sang Hoon
Kim, Jung Ho
Park, Jung Hyun
Yoon, Hyung-Jun
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Kim, Seung-Gon
Kim, Sang Hoon
Kim, Jung Ho
Park, Jung Hyun
Yoon, Hyung-Jun
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description BACKGROUND: This cross-sectional study investigated the impact of life satisfaction and happiness, as well as the prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms in a large sample of university students. METHODS: We included 2338 students at 6 universities in 1 metropolitan city and 2 provinces of Korea. Depressive symptoms were assessed by the Beck Depression Inventory, and scores of 16 or higher were categorized as the presence of depression. Various sociodemographic, life satisfaction, happiness, and clinical factors (alcohol consumption and sleep quality) were measured. According to the presence of depression, sociodemographic, life satisfaction, happiness, and clinical characteristics were compared using statistical analyses. Further, a logistic regression model was constructed to examine the impact of life satisfaction, happiness, and clinical factors on depression. RESULTS: Among participants, 13.4% were identified as having depression. Life satisfaction and happiness were associated with a lower risk of depression, while hazardous alcohol drinking and poor sleep quality were related to a higher risk of depression. In addition, female gender, subjective body shape as obese, and insufficient pocket money were found to be significant correlates of depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated possible risk and protective factors of underlying depressive symptoms. Especially, our findings suggest that improvement in life satisfaction and happiness would be important in the prevention and management of depression. Our findings may contribute to developing specialized mental health programs for prevention, screening, and treatment of depression among university students.
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spelling pubmed-62979502018-12-19 Life satisfaction and happiness associated with depressive symptoms among university students: a cross-sectional study in Korea Seo, Eun Hyun Kim, Seung-Gon Kim, Sang Hoon Kim, Jung Ho Park, Jung Hyun Yoon, Hyung-Jun Ann Gen Psychiatry Primary Research BACKGROUND: This cross-sectional study investigated the impact of life satisfaction and happiness, as well as the prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms in a large sample of university students. METHODS: We included 2338 students at 6 universities in 1 metropolitan city and 2 provinces of Korea. Depressive symptoms were assessed by the Beck Depression Inventory, and scores of 16 or higher were categorized as the presence of depression. Various sociodemographic, life satisfaction, happiness, and clinical factors (alcohol consumption and sleep quality) were measured. According to the presence of depression, sociodemographic, life satisfaction, happiness, and clinical characteristics were compared using statistical analyses. Further, a logistic regression model was constructed to examine the impact of life satisfaction, happiness, and clinical factors on depression. RESULTS: Among participants, 13.4% were identified as having depression. Life satisfaction and happiness were associated with a lower risk of depression, while hazardous alcohol drinking and poor sleep quality were related to a higher risk of depression. In addition, female gender, subjective body shape as obese, and insufficient pocket money were found to be significant correlates of depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated possible risk and protective factors of underlying depressive symptoms. Especially, our findings suggest that improvement in life satisfaction and happiness would be important in the prevention and management of depression. Our findings may contribute to developing specialized mental health programs for prevention, screening, and treatment of depression among university students. BioMed Central 2018-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6297950/ /pubmed/30568720 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-018-0223-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Life satisfaction and happiness associated with depressive symptoms among university students: a cross-sectional study in Korea
title Life satisfaction and happiness associated with depressive symptoms among university students: a cross-sectional study in Korea
title_full Life satisfaction and happiness associated with depressive symptoms among university students: a cross-sectional study in Korea
title_fullStr Life satisfaction and happiness associated with depressive symptoms among university students: a cross-sectional study in Korea
title_full_unstemmed Life satisfaction and happiness associated with depressive symptoms among university students: a cross-sectional study in Korea
title_short Life satisfaction and happiness associated with depressive symptoms among university students: a cross-sectional study in Korea
title_sort life satisfaction and happiness associated with depressive symptoms among university students: a cross-sectional study in korea
topic Primary Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6297950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30568720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-018-0223-1
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