A Study on the Development of Designation Criteria for the New Korean National Park Model

Factors Related to Increasing Trends in Cigarette Smoking of Adolescent Males in Rural Areas of Korea

“…Rural students would be able to recognize the gap in the academic performance between rural and urban areas by the open test results of the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the National Assessment of Educational Achievement. According to the study of Kim et al [6], rural students considered low academic performance to be the most serious of their school life issues, and the strongest difference between rural and urban high school students was their sense of the possibility of realistically attaining their desired occupations, which was 19.4% and 34.6%, respectively. Thus, it was concluded that lower academic performance in rural students compared to urban students caused low self-esteem, negative sense of self, and pressure and stress about academic performance.…”

“…Only 23% of rural adolescents were found to be satisfied with rural life, and they recognized that the culture, career opportunities, public health, and education levels in rural areas were lower than those of urban areas [5]. Because of poor rural conditions and rural adolescents' negative attitudes such as a sense of defeat and deprivation, the rate of misbehavior of rural adolescents was reported to be higher than that of urban adolescents [6], as was the smoking rate. The smoking rate in high school students of rural areas was greater than that of urban areas [7].…”