The purpose of this study is to examine the health related quality of life of middle school students and social support and class cohesiveness as the factors making an effect on it.
The subject of this investigation is 516 students of 3 schools in Daegu and it was conducted in Feb. 2014. And, students who understood purposes of questionnaire and agree with them responded by self recording type.
As the result of this study, among the social supports, friend support and teacher support made a significant effect on class cohesiveness. As friend support and teacher support were higher, class cohesiveness was significantly increased. The score of middle school student''s health related quality of life was total 81.1. And, social sector showed the highest score of 87.1 and emotional function showed the lowest score of 73.8. Among the general characteristics, gender, economic level, class grade, etc. made a significant effect on the health related quality of life. As economic level of male students was higher and class grade was from upper intermediate to lower intermediate, health related quality of life showed higher quality of life. For relations among the class cohesiveness, social support and health related quality of life, teacher support made a significant effect in physical function and class cohesiveness, friend support and teacher support made a significant effect in social psychology function and the whole scores.
As the result of this study, relations among the teachers and between teachers and students should be strengthen for middle school students so as to improve cohesiveness for the class they are belonging. Those friend support and teacher support make a direct effect on the quality of life, so it''s necessary to receive social support.