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Background/Objectives: As a study of secondary analysis that analyzed the 13th (2017) Korean Adolescents’ Health Behavior Online Survey data second time, this is a descriptive study performed for the purpose of identifying the major factors having influence on the subjective happiness perceived by the youth.

Methods/Statistical Analysis: The subjects of the 13th (2017) survey were 64,991 students from total 800 schools and out of them, 62,276 students from 799 schools participated showing 95.8% of participation rate. For the general, physical and psychological factors, the complex sample frequency analysis and for the major factors having influence on the subjective happiness, the complex sample regression analysis were used.

Findings: The age, grade, economic level, frequency of having breakfast per week, experience of receiving treatment by the violence, frequency of physical activities more than 60 minutes per week, fatigue recovery with the sleep, weight control effort, BMI, smoking, stress, subjective cognition of body type, subjective health, suicidal ideation and the agony counselor were drawn as the major factors having statistically significant influence on the subjective happiness received by Korean youths.

Improvements/Applications: To enhance the happiness of the youth, the happiness enhancement program about breakfast management prevention of violence, physical activities more 60 minutes per week, sleep and fatigue recovery, weight control, smoking, stress management, suicidal ideation, counseling with the family as counselor, etc. is need to be activated.

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Background/Objectives: To find relationships among stress, self-differentiation, and adjustment to college life in the college students and verify the mediated effect of self-differentiation between stress and adjustment to the college life.

Method/Statistical Analysis: Data were collected from 1,192 attending college students and analysed using SPSS Statistics 22. T-test and ANOVA were used to confirm the level of stress by the adjustment level to the college life, differences of self-differentiation, adjustment level to the college life by the levels of stress and self-differentiation.

Findings: Even with the same level of stress, there were differences in the adjustment to the college life by degree of self-differentiation. The stress and self-differentiation of the college students were significant predictors for the adjustment to the college life by 15.8%, which showed higher level of the adjustment to the college life as the stress was lower and self-differentiation was higher, demonstrating partial mediated effect of self-differentiation between the stress and adjustment to the college life.

Improvements/Applications: Based on these study results, controlling stress by enhancing self-differentiation is considered to be helpful for the adjustment to the college life.

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Background/Objectives:With the rapid economic development and changes in living conditions in south Korea, the frequency of chronic diseases has been gradually increasing due to westernized eating habits and decreased physical activities. This study is a descriptive secondary analysis designed to provide basic data necessary to maintain healthy life for patients of osteoarthritis patients by analysing the risk of metabolic syndrome affecting osteoarthritis in Koreans.

Method/Statistical Analysis:Secondary analysis was conducted on the 6th KNHANESraw data provided by the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare. A total of 4,571 adults aged 19 or older who received both health and medical examinations were selected for analysis.

Findings: 10.8% of total subjects were identified to have osteoarthritis. Logistic regression analyses after adjusting age, sex, education levels, smoking and drinking revealed that the odds ratio of osteoarthritis increased depending on waist circumference of the persons reviewed in the study (OR 1.474, 95% CI=1.121-1.938) in the metabolic syndrome components.

Improvements/Applications:In conclusion, this study showed the waist circumference only of other components of metabolic syndrome was significantly related to osteoarthritis in Korean adults. Therefore, this study suggested that intensive management of obesity including abdominal obesity be useful to prevent risks of osteoarthritis.

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