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Skipping Breakfast and Overweight Are Associated with Academic Achievement in Korean Adolescents
Author(s) -
Kang Yang Wha,
Joung Hyojee
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.21.6.lb52-b
Subject(s) - overweight , academic achievement , girl , demography , medicine , psychology , developmental psychology , pediatrics , gerontology , obesity , sociology
This study was carried out to examine the associations among skipping breakfast, overweight and academic achievement in Korean adolescents. The data of 1652 subjects (942 boys and 710 girls) was obtained from the Korea Education Employment Panel (KEEP), which is a nationally representative sample of senior high school students in 2004. Information was obtained via personal interviews using PDA. Academic achievement was collected from the records of the National Scholastic Achievement Examination (NSAE) for the college entrance. The level of Scholastic Achievement was classified into three groups according to the tertiles and the highest and the lowest groups were selected to be analyzed. Both boys and girls with skipping breakfast showed significant lower scores of Language in NSAE (Boy: OR= 0.467, p<0.05; Girl: OR=0.397, p<0.05) than those having regular breakfast. Boys with overweight showed significantly lower scores of Language in NSAE (OR=0.533, p<0.05), but no difference was observed among the girls. Alcohol intake, TV watching, computer using time, school absence and sleeping time also significantly influence the academic achievement of NSAE (p<0.05). These results suggest that academic achievement were significantly influenced by skipping breakfast, overweight and some lifestyles in Korean adolescents. (This work was supported by the Brain Korea 21 Project in 2007.)