This study was conducted to compare the practice of health promoting behaviors between hospital workers and government officers.
The subjects for this study were consisted of 344 hospital workers in four university hospitals and 340 government officers in four district offices in the Kyong-in area. Data were collected by using constructed questionnaires from January to February in 1997 and analyzed by Chi-square test, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression.
The results were as follows :
1. There was no significant difference between hospital workers and government officers in practice of health promoting behaviors as a whole, but among five domains of the health promoting behaviors, hospital workers was significantly higher than that of government officer in the domain of health responsibility, while they were significantly lower than those of government officer in the domain of exercise & nutrition and stress management.
The mean score of health promoting behavior for hospital workers and government officer were 2.40, and 2.47, respectively. The health promoting behavior in relation to the characteristics of the hospital workers varied significantly according to sex and age.
The domain of self-actualization ranked highest in health promoting behaviors of hospital workers, interpersonal support came next, stress management, health responsibility and exercise & nutrition followed them. While those of government officers, the domain of self-actualization ranked highest, interpersonal support came next, stress management, exercise & nutrition and health responsibility followed them.
2. There were no significant difference between hospital workers and government officers in the health perception with mean score of 3.32 and 3.34 respectively, in the self esteem with mean score of 2.82 and 2.84 respectively, in the self-efficacy with mean score of 70.50 and 72.35 respectively, in the internal health locus of control with mean score of 2.95 and 3.03, respectively, in the chance health locus of control with mean score of 2.10 and 2.13, respectively, in the powerful others health locus of control with mean score of 2.39 and 2.46, respectively.
3. The practice of health promoting behavior of hospital workers were strongly associated with self-esteem and self-efficacy, and self-esteem was strongly correlated with self-efficacy.
And the practice of health promoting behavior of government officers were strongly associated with self-esteem, powerful others health locus of control and internal health locus of control, and self-esteem was strongly correlated with self-efficacy.
4. The combination of self-esteem, powerful others health locus of control, health perception, self-efficacy, internal health locus of control, age and marital status explained 45.7% of variance of likelihood to engage in health promoting behavior of hospital workers.
And the combination of self-esteem, powerful others health locus of control, health perception, self-efficacy, internal health locus of control, sex and marital status explained 48.2% of variance of likelihood to engage in health promoting behavior of government officers.
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