PedActa (Aug 2018)
A felsőoktatási társas integráció és a hallgatói egészségmagatartás kapcsolata
Abstract
According to the results of the ESPAD studies, Hungarian students in the public education take place on the top in Europe due to the increasing prevalence of smoking and binge drinking. We do not have comparable international data regarding university students. In present study, we try to cover up the blank spaces of the previous studies, putting the focus on the higher educational students. For this reason, an international investigation called IESA (Institutional Effects on Academic Achievement, N=1792) was applied involving four countries. As the result of the institutional effect, the student has significantly bigger chance to avoid health-damaging habits in a campus society in which risk-avoiding approaches are dominating; however, the complex embeddedness in peer groups raises significantly the chance of risk-behaviour as well. Students studying in the same higher educational campuses create a health behaviour interpretive community and their effects often overwrite the individual protective and risk factors.
