The college students majoring in public health administration can experience academic stress due to various causes. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of college students’ major recognition, career recognition, and college dropout on academic stress, and identify the factors for reducing academic stress in consideration of individual characteristics and college characteristics.
This study conducted a survey and analysis study through a questionnaire for students enrolled in five colleges with departments related to health and medical administration among college in five regions. The final study subjects were 216 people, and the T-test, ANOVA, and the multiple regression analysis were performed to observe the relationship between major recognition, career recognition, and college dropout and academic stress.
As career recognition increased, academic stress was predicted to be low, and academic stress was predicted to be higher as college dropout increased.
As a result of detailed analysis of individual characteristics and college character- istics, academic stress was predicted to be higher as the major recognition increased in the case of male. If the gender is female, if the grade is first years and fourth years, if the school classification is a junior college, and if the English level is low, the academic stress is predicted to be higher as the college dropout increases.
The college students majoring in health and medical administration demonstrated a high correlation between career recognition and college dropout with academic stress. Furthermore, the relationship between major recognition, career recog- nition, college dropout, and academic stress was different according to gender, grade, school classification, and English level. Hence, it is necessary to prepare an educational policy that considers the development of recognition change programs, education and counseling programs, and the application of new learn- ing methods in consideration of college students’ major recognition, career recognition, college dropout, personal characteristics, and college characteristics.