|
KMID : 1002520220160030129
|
|
Korean Journal of Health Service Management
2022 Volume.16 No. 3 p.129 ~ p.139
|
|
|
Impacts of Aging Anxiety, Self-Efficacy and Marital Intimacy on Health Promotion Behavior in Late Middle-Aged Women
|
|
Im Yang-Soon
Lee Sun-Ok
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Objectives: This study aimed to identify the relationship between aging anxiety, self-efficacy, marital intimacy, and health promotion behaviors in middle-aged women aged 50 to 59 years, and to determine their effect on health promotion.
Methods: The study participants 147 married women, selected through convenience sampling, who visited three small and medium-sized hospitals in metropolitan B for health check-ups.
Results: Factors affecting the participants health promotion progress were marital intimacy (β=.29, p<.001), self-efficacy (β=.24, p=.001), and subjective health status (β=-.21, p=.005) and age (β=-.19, p=.008). The overall explanatory power was 27.1%, and marital intimacy was the most influential factor in health promotion.
Conclusions: Therefore, to facilitate health promotion behavior and increase marital intimacy, programs in which couples can participants together with consideration and respect for each other should be developed. Moreover, the belief that late middle-aged women can lead a healthy life should be encouraged if it conveys your desired meaning.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Late Middle-Aged Women, Aging Anxiety, Self-Efficacy, Marital Intimacy, Health Promotion Behavior
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|