This study was designed to investigate the relationship of health promoting daily life style and self-efficiency about a dental technician. For maintaining health, it is important to keep one's healthful behavior. If human activity is decided by personal recognition, it might be crucial to research the relationship between health promotion behavior and the recognition factors on health promotion. A self-efficiency, among cognitive-perceptual factors, has been convinced of being the most efficient factor for a health promotion to take and maintain a certain activity. The purpose of this study is to inquire into the degree of health promotion activity of a dental technician, and to find out the relationship between the self-efficiency and the health promotion behavior in order to offer the basic data for developing a educational method or program of health promotion.
The objects of this study were selected by haphazard sampling and the size was 203 of the dental technician. I collected the data 24 November 2000 to 8 January 2001 and the data was analyzed by means, percentage, ANOVA, pearson's correlation coefficient and stopwise multiple regression, using SPSS-PC＋, and the results are as follows.
1. The hypothesis that 'The higher the self-efficacy, the better the health-promoting behaviors' was supported on a meaningful level(r=.623, p<.000). I analyzed the effect of self-efficacy on each section of the health-promoting behaviors and the result in every section supported the hypothesis on a meaningful level - the eating habit(r=.541, p<.000), drinking ˙ smoking (r=.629, p=<.000), health responsibility(r=.402, p<.000), the control of interpersonal relation(r=.415, p=<.000), the exercise(r=.504, p<.000), the control of interpersonal relation(r=.313, p<.3000), self-achievement(r=.542, p<.000)
2. The executive degree of health-promoting behaviors of the objects was above-middle, 2.59(total=4.00). When the means of the executive degree of each sections were examined, the section of self-achievement was the highest(2.98), and the others order was drinking˙smoking(2.81), the control of personal relation(2.80), the control of stress(2.68), the eating habit (2.82), the exercise(2.49), health-responsibility(2.07).
3. The point of self-efficacy was 6.63(total=10.00). In each sections, self-achievement was the highest(7.82), the control of interpersonal relation(7.33), drinking˙smoking(6.92) was the next, and the control of stress(6.90) was the next, the eating habit(6.26). the exercise(6.05), health-responsibility(5.98) was the lowest one.
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