The purpose of this article is to address the relationship between noxious
environment within the School Environment Hygiene Purification Zone
(SEHPZ) and problem behavior of students of individual school, and suggest
policy implications regarding the contemporary SEHPZ System.
Little is known about the link between noxious environment and students’
problem behavior in Korean literature. In doing so, we made a unpreceded
attempt to reveal the linkage between those two factors. More specifically,
using complete data of the noxious environment at the District Office of
Education level and the number of problem behavior at Individual school
level, we have accounted for the relationship by employing Hierarchical
Generalized Linear Model with negative binominal distribution.
Our results show that if noxious environment is more intensified, the
number of students involved in school violence and school dropout would be
increasing, which means there is a positive correlation between the noxious
environment around school area and problem behavior of students.
These findings indicate that noxious facilities or businesses in the SEPHZ
are harmful enough to give negative effect to Adolescent Students. To
improve these problems, we suggest policy implications that the application
of the law regarding SEPHZ should be more rigid than current status, simultaneously, youth leisure facilities should be increased so that students
can use it more frequently and freely.