ABSTRACT

Analyses of Bipolar Disorder Tendency
and Its Related Variables in High School Students


by Hye ran-Kim
Advisor: Seunghee Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Special Education
Graduate School, Chosun University




The purpose of this research is to understand the level of bipolar disorder tendency of high school students and to study the correlation between the tendency and the variables (gender, grade, hours of sleep, same age relationship, stress, suicidal idea, social unrest and misdeed) as well as the effects of the variables on the distinguish between the normal group and risk group of bipolar disorder.
The subjects of this study are students from two academic high schools located in Jeollanam-do (one man high school and one girls’ high school), who are currently attending the schools. A survey was conducted on the subject students and 100% of the surveys were collected; however, 25 of them were excluded due to undependable or missing responds, and lastly 429 surveys (94%) were used as data for the analysis. The collected data were analyzed through the descriptive statistic, correlation analysis and logistic regression analysis and the results are listed accordingly to each subject for inquiry as follow.
First, among the 429(100%) subjects, each normal and risk group appear to be 189(44.1%) and 240(55.9%). Additionally, the average bipolar disorder tendency of the normal and the risk group appear to be each 4.07(SD=1.67) and 8.96(SD=1.62) compared to the average of the whole group, which appears to be 6.81(SD=2.93).
Second, the correlation between the eight variables (gender, grade, hours of sleep, same age relationship, stress, suicidal idea, social unrest and misdeed) and the high school student bipolar disorder tendency show that the stress, suicidal idea, social unrest and misdeed are correlated to the bipolar disorder tendency; however, other four variables (gender, grade, hours of sleep and, same age relationship) did not correlate with the bipolar disorder tendency. In other words, students with high level of stress, suicidal idea, social unrest and misdeed appear to show higher bipolar disorder tendency.
Third, among the eight variables, stress and misdeed draw attention to show effects on distinguish the normal and risk group. In other words, when the subject’s level of independent variables is the same, higher level of stress and misdeed increase the probability of that subject appears to be in a risk group of bipolar disorder.
The results were discussed associating with the preceding researches, and several proposals for the future studies were suggested