Hygiene and Preventive Medicine
The study on college students’ security and its influencing factors
Haixia Liu, Lin Lin, Yaya Shi, Jiu Wang, Hongwei Sun
Published 2014-03-20
Cite as Chin J Behav Med & Brain Sci, 2014, 23(3): 264-267. DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-6554.2014.03.022
Abstract
ObjectiveTo develop the security scale of college students’ sense to investigate college students’ subjective feeling of security. According to the characteristics of the feeling tendentiousness to analysis the subject and object factors influencing the insecurity of college students.
MethodsThe security scale of college students’ sense compiled was administrated to 500 college student randomly stratified cluster sampling from four universities in Yantai, then description and analysis were analyzed by SPSS17.0, AHP and SAS9.1 to statistical.
ResultsThrough the scale of exploratory factor analysis, the Cronbach’s of the scale was 0.629. College students in four dimensions of security and total security were in above-average levels, college students' total score of security is significance of difference in grade, gender and whether come from the single parent(all P<0.05); Self security was significance of difference in the grade and the gender(P<0.01 and P<0.05); and interpersonal security in gender and whether come from the single parent had significance difference(P<0.05); Determine control and family security in these demographic variable aspects had no significant differences. Multivariate factors analysis results showed that the decision tree model was better than the logistic model(the misclassification rate of the model was lower than the decision tree model). The main factors affecting the university students' security were gender, grade, the average income and whether they were the only children. The misclassification rate of the decision tree model was lower than the model of logistic.College students' sense of dimensions are significant with positive correlation, the dimension of the security level may affect other security of the situation.
ConclusionThe security scale of college students’ sense has good reliability and validity and can be used in the study of college security. The factor analysis determines it can be used multiple factors analysis. The survey shows that the overall security of the crowd’s is over the average level. The gender, grade, annual per-capita income and whether the one-child are the potential factors that affect college students’ insecurity.
Key words:
Security sense; College students; Influencing factors; Decision tree; Logistic regression
Contributor Information
Haixia Liu
School of Health Administration, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 246003, China
Lin Lin
Yaya Shi
Jiu Wang
Hongwei Sun
