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The Relation Research On Obesity College Female Students And Depression And Social Support

Posted on:2008-08-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S H JinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360215451829Subject:Applied Psychology
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This paper uses the method of questionnaire asking and deep interview to study the relation between obesity, depression and social support. Through the investigation in the depression and social support to 271 obesity college female students and 186 normal college female students, to ask the society for attention to the obesity group. The University may set up psychological refer especial to the obesity ones to help them get rid of depression and lose weight under the healthy psychological condition.Obesity has always been under the concern of the medical researchers. Many of them study obesity from the factor of the pathology, harm and vital disease it will bring and has made great many of progress. In recent years, more and more psychological researchers get interested of the obesity field and begin to relate obesity to some psychological factors. Depression of the college students is of great concern from all ranks of society in recent years. After the commit suicide cases of the college students unceasing, the experts say that suicide has become a main killer in college. Accompany with the competition conscious and the growing will of self—realization, more and more students get trapped into depression. Depression is a common harmful mood in college students, it is the increasing of the evil motion and very common psychological handicap in college students. There are a lot of researchers put depression and social support together to make their study. There is also strong evidence indicate that the relationship between depression and social support is counter relative. Under the same pressure condition, the ones who get more support from partner, friends and other family members will suffer few than the ones who do not have enough support, and they may stay more healthy and have few depression rate compare to those who can not get enough support.Under these condition, this paper study the depression and social support status of 271 obesity college female students and 186 normal college female students. Through the comparison of the depression and social support status, make the conclusion that"the obesity females have the more chance to suffer depression". This paper use the data to make relative analyze and return analyze. The result is:(1) The whole depression rate in obesity college female students is higher than normal college female students.(2) The light,moderate and severe depression rate in obesity college female students are all higher than normal college female students.(3) The whole social support rate in obesity college female students is lower than normal college female students.(4) The relation between obesity degree and the depression degree is not evident.(5) Within the obesity college female students and the normal college female students, the relationship between depression index and social support index is counter relative, it means the higher depression index, the lower social support index.(6) Let the depression index and social support index to be the independent variable, and let obesity index to be the dependent variable to make return analyze, the result indicate that use the social support index can fairly predict the obesity index of the female college students.In addition to that, after deep interview to 8 light obesity female college students, 8 moderate obesity female college students and 5 severe obesity female college students who are heavily depressed, I find that the obesity female college students suffer tremendous physical and psychological pressure along with the normal factors which depressed college students suffer. And the disease which obesity bring is also of their great concern. I find a common character which the obesity female college students suffer through deep interview: obesity will bring anxiety, anxiety will lead to excessive eating, excessive eating will come to the growing of body weight, growing of body weight will result in the more deep depression and anxiety. In this virulent circulation, they suffer depression and anxiety all day long and lead to their deep depression. So the helping to the obesity ones is so vital to them, to help them get rid of depression and regain healthy body is very meaningful to our society too.There also exist a lot of defections in this paper. Because of the specialty of the under studied group, to investigate them face to face is too difficult and may consume great many of time and energy. So I adopt the study method of net recruit and investigation. The using of internet make my study very convenient in collecting data and statistics but the accuracy is not so exact compare to face to face investigation. In addition to that, the obesity female college students is only a small group of the whole obesity group, so use the data from obesity female college students to predict the whole obesity group may lack representation. With the technical constrain of my study, which factor result in the high depression and low social support in the obesity college students is not mentioned.Recently, the study of obesity, depression and social support is on the great concern of all ranks of society. The study in this field will become more mature and the study of the relationship between obesity and psychology will soon flourish the science field. I believe this field will be very prosperous. Research obesity through the psychological point of view will help the obesities to maintain health psychology condition, and make solid foundation for their losing of weight in order to regain healthy.
Keywords/Search Tags:Depression
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