Relation between school's stressor factors and physical-psychological complaints in high school students of Yasouj City, 2003-2004

ABSTRACT

Human being is usually facing a series of stressor factors in each step of his life. Specially in case of students whom stimulation will be arise in reaction with school's environment in order to prepare them to promote their psychological hygiene or psychological and behavioral disorders. In this respect, the present study was done in order to determine the school's stressor factors and their relation with student's physical complaints which was also measured according to age, sex, last year's average, etc variables. This is a correlation type of study in which 340 students [girls and boys] from pre-university level of Yasouj city with simple way based on objective were selected. The tools of data collection is a three section questionnaire consisting of information regarding personal characteristics, questions about stressors factors of the school [34 cases] and questions about physical complaints [19 cases] in students, which was done by questionnaire presenting at schools. Then, with the use of SPSS software descriptive and deductive statistics the data were analyzed. Results showed that, 50.3% of cases were boys and 49.7% of them were girls. The mean age and last year's average of samples was 17.54 +/- 1.11 and 16.25 +/- 2.03 respectively. The most stressor factors was anxiety for their future's studying and business, less average comparing with last year's average, to be deferred from studying, etc respectively and the most prevalent physical complaints of students was fast angriness, angst, headache, forgetting of lesson, etc. Also Pearson's correlation coefficient between school's stressor factors and students physical-psychological complaints showed significant relation [r=0.43, P<0.01]. Meanwhile, girls were facing stressor factors and physical complaints more than boys [t=-2.94, P<0.01, t=-3.15, P<0.01 respectively]. As it was mentioned in findings, there was a significant relation between school's stressor factors and student's physical complaints. Therefore stressor factors can be introduced to the students by teaching, helping them to select the ways of facing those factors. So that, an efficient step can be take up to promote the physical and psychological hygiene of this group of society