The health promotion of the adolescents is very important, since it has much effect on their growth, development and health.
This descriptive?correlational study was undertaken in order to investigate the relationship between health promoting lifestyle and resourcefulness.
The subjects of this study were 168 female undergraduate students by a convenience sampling. Research instruments used in this study were the Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile developed by Walker et al(1987) and Resourcefulness developed by Rosenbaum(1980).
The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, pearson correlation coefficient, Cronbach a with SAS program.
The results of this study are as follows.
1) The mean of health promoting lifestyle was total 103.8 ± 13.18 showed the low level score.
2) The mean of Resourcefulness was total 107.4 ± 13.9 showed the medium level score.
3) The positive corrleation between health promoting lifestyle and Resourcefulness was found(r=.54 p< 0.01).
In conclusion, female undergrauate students revealed low level of health promoting lifestyle , but showed medium level of resourcefulness.
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