The purposes of this study are to subdivide the beauty care department students, to look into individualdimensions in health care and scalp/hair care of subdivided groups by the hair loss cause variable, tounderstand the presence of differences in sca...
The purposes of this study are to subdivide the beauty care department students, to look into individualdimensions in health care and scalp/hair care of subdivided groups by the hair loss cause variable, tounderstand the presence of differences in scalp/hair care by the subdivided group, and thereby to suggest thepractices for effective hair loss prevention and proper scalp/hair care and for keeping and improving scalp/hairhealth. For the study, questionnaire surveys were conducted February 28 through March 14, 2011, with thesubjects of beauty care department students at 2-year or 4-year colleges or graduate schools located in Seouland Gyeonggi areas. The collected data of 347 copies were analyzed with SPSS 16.0 for frequency analysis,factor analysis, reliability analysis, cluster analysis, and variance analysis. According to the findings, the hair losscause variables were divided into the factors of scalp conditions, stress, dietary habits, hair conditions, familyhistory, drinking/smoking, while health care dimensions were classified into active health care and passivehealth care, and scalp/hair care dimensions were arranged into personal care and professional care. Types ofhair loss cause variables represented well the characteristics among the groups when the number of groupswas set to four, and the groups were named and subdivided into four types of scalp/hair type, dietary habit type,drinking/smoking type, and family history type, in consideration of factor scores and characteristics of individualgroups. The presence of drinking/smoking factor in the subdivided groups showed significant differences amongthe four groups, and the group of drinking/smoking type was more likely to be exposed to drinking and smokingthan the other groups. The comparison of health care factors among the subdivided groups showed that dietaryhabit type group recorded the low average value in the case of active health care factor and scalp/hair typegroup recorded the high average value in the case of passive health care factor. The comparison of scalp/haircare factors among the subdivided groups showed that dietary habit type group recorded the relatively lowaverage value in the case of personal care, indicating the absence of active personal care for scalp/hair health,and significant differences existed among the subdivided groups, however, with the identical results at the postverification. in the case of professional care. The study findings showed that there existed differences in healthcare and scalp/hair care among the subdivided groups by the hair loss cause variable.