The purpose of this study was to identify the major factors affecting performance in health promoting behavior. The subjects for this study were 414 workers employed in one transportation manufacturing plant in Pusan and were obtained by a convenience sample. Data were collected from November 11th to December 2lth, 1996 by structured questionnaires.
Collected data were analyzed by SPSS PC.
The results of this study are as follows.
1. The average score of performance in the health promoting behavior was 2.42 the range of the score was from 1.44 to 3.71, The variable with the highest degree of performance was self actualizat ion. whereas the one with the lowest dc gree was exercise. tible~ and performance in the health ptunlotiug behavior, only the shift system showed statisti- cally significant differences in the total of health promoting behavior especially the group of no shift operation was higher in the performance of subscale such as exercise, nutrition, interpersonal support than that of the shift operation.
Some demographic variables showed significant differences in the subscale of the health promot- ing behavior age, worker뭩 career and marital status.
3. Performance in the health promoting behavior was significantly correlated with perceived health status, health conception, self-efficacy, perceived benefits and perceived barriers, 4. The most important factor that affects perform- ance in the health promoting behavior was self-cf ficacv.
The combination of self-efficacy, perceived bene fits, perceived health status, perceived barriers, shift system and department of work accounted for 31.05% of the variance in health promoting be- havior.
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