This undated file photo shows Ewha Womans University in Seoul. (Yonhap)
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Although South Korean university students are experiencing various difficulties due to employment struggles and expensive college tuition, their stress level is different by gender and their parents’ income and academic level, a study showed Monday.
A research team from Korea University carried out a latent profile analysis based on the answers of 3,812 university students (1,728 men and 2,084 women) using data from Korea Student Aid Panel Survey.
The analysis showed that the high-stress group accounted for the largest share at 35.7 percent, followed by the middle-stress group (concentrated on career stress) at 27.7 percent, and the middle-stress group (concentrated on economic stress) at 26.4 percent.
In particular, the group with a higher stress level showed a higher share of female students. In fact, female students accounted for 62.3 percent of the high-stress group.
Among the students belonging to the high-stress group, the share of those with parents with higher than university degrees remained low at 31.8 percent. In contrast, this share was high at 49.5 percent for the low-stress group.
When it came to the monthly household income level, low-stress group showed the highest level, while high-stress group recorded the lowest level.
Ashley Song (ashley@koreabizwire.com)
