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Difference of the 28‐Item General Health Questionnaire Scores between Japanese High School and University Students
Author(s) -
Nagata Koji,
Okubo Hiromi,
Moji Kazuhiko,
Takemoto Taiichiro
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1993.tb01802.x
Subject(s) - general health questionnaire , psychology , anxiety , depression (economics) , mental health , insomnia , significant difference , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , economics , macroeconomics
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) with 28 items was tested in Nagasaki city on 138 senior students in a prefectural high school and 685 freshmen in a national university to evaluate the degree of students' mental stress due to the highly competitive entrance examination for university. The average GHQ score tested on high school students was 5.33 for males and 7.07 for females, and 3.99 for males and 4.42 for females on university students. It showed that high school students were under greater pressure than university students and female students were in a higher tension compared with male students. The factor analysis showed that the primary and secondary factor of high school students were “severe depression” and “anxiety and insomnia,” while “somatic symptoms” were the primary factor causing stress in university students.