This study is purposed to discriminte the effect of health interest,. health responsibility and health locus of control on the teenagers´s health behavior. The. subject of this study was 409 boys and girls, high school 2nd grade students in G city. The period of data collection was from July 9, 1990 to July 14, 1990.
Data analysis method is used SPSS-X program and frequency, number, mean, standard deviation, t value and Pearsons correlation coefficient were computed.
The results of this study were as follows.
1. Hypothesis 1. “The higher health responsibility score is, the higher health behavior score is.” is supported statistically (r=.2613, p<0.001).
2. Hypothesis 2. “The higher healh interest score is, the higher health behavior score is.” is supported statisically (r=.1130, p<0.001)
3. Hypothesis 3. “The higher internal health locus of control tendency is, the higher health behavior score is.” is statistically supported(r=0.1013, p<0.001).
4. The health behavior score is positive correlation with internal locus of control (r=.1013, p<0.001) and external health locus of control (r=.2314 p<0.001).
And there is no differnce between IHLOC group and EHLOC group in health behavior score(t=0763, p<0.05).
And so, I suggested that；
(1) We should find out the effect of health locus of control type on health behavior of single and multi dimension.
(2) We should discriminate the dimension of health behavior.
(3) We should search the nursing intervention method, such as reinforcement of health interest and health responsibility to develop health behavior.
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