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KMID : 0377619960610120981
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1996 Volume.61 No. 12 p.981 ~ p.994
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A Study of Influencing Variables of Health Promotion Behaviors of College Students
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Lee Seon-Hye
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Abstract
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The primary purpose of this study was to identify variables influencing health promotion behaviors and investigation health promotion behaviors of college students.
The subjects for this stud., were 253 college students obtained by a convience sampling from one University in Seoul.
Data were collected from November 22 to November 30, 1996 by means of self reporting questionnaire.
The data were analyzed through the SPSS program by use of descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients and Stepwise multiple regression. The results of the study were as follows ;
1. The results of descriptive analysis.
1) The subjects degree of health promotion behaviors was slightly middle level(mean 2.52, standard deviation : 0.29).
2) The general characteristic variables to practice of health promotion behaviors showed a significant difference in sex(t=-2.03, p<.05), religion(t=-2.31, p<.05), residences type (F=3.64, p<.01), degree of health information concern(F=18.50, p<.001) and degree of present life satisfaction(F=15.88, p<.001). Those showed a significant positively correlations in degree of health information concern(r=0.364, p=.001) and degree of present life satisfaction(r=0.329, p<.001).
3) The variables to health promotion behaviors showed a significant positively correlations in internal health locus of control(r=0.119, p<.05), powerful of others health locous of control(r=0.161, p<.01), self-esteem(r=0.374, p<.001) and perceived importance of health(r=0.235, p<.001).
2. The results of stepwise multiple regression analysis.
1) Degree of health information concern was the most important factor that predicts health promotion behaviors of college students(R=0.3759) accounts for 13.38 % of health promotion behaviors(p<.001) ; when self-esteem(R=0.4862), degree of present life satisfaction(R=0.5239), perceived health status(R=0.5381) were added to this, they accounts for 28. 95 % of health promotion behaviors(p<.001).
In conclusion, it is importance for late adolescents including college students to lay the foundation for chronic disease prevention by promoting and maintaining healthy lifestyles.
The need to increase degree of health information concern and present life satisfaction, self-esteem and perceived health status for the optimal health promotion program of college students. So the writer would like to extend the method to a larger college students to further verify the results.
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