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전정자 ( ) - 한양대 간호학과
김영희 ( ) - 경성전문대 간호과
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Abstract
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Recently, there has been a growing concern over health promotion in Korea.
Department of Nursing, Hanyang University Department of Nursing, Kyungsung College
This descriptive correlational study was undertaken in order to compare the health promoting life styles, self esteem, and perceived health status of older adults with those of young and middle-aged adults, to examine the relationship of self esteem, perceived health status, and sociodemographic characteristics to health promoting life styles through-out adulthood, and to identify predicters of health promoting life styles.
The instrument of this study was a structured questionnaire included Health Promoting Life Style, Self Esteem, Perceived Health Status, Sociodemographic Characteristics.
Six dimensions of life styles such as self-actualization, reponsibility for health, nutrition, exercise, interpersonal relationship, and stress control were measured by the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile(HPLP) in 553 adults aged 18 to 89.
Data were collected from November 1995 to January 1996.
Analysis of the data was done by use of descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and stepwise multiple regression.
The results of this study are as follows
1. The health promoting life styles activities were showed statistically significant difference among the three groups. Young adults had high scores in overall health promoting life styles than middle-aged and older adults. In self actualization dimension, young adults had high scores(Z914) than middle aged and older adults. In responsibility for health, exercise, interpersonal relationship, and stress management dimensions, middle aged adults had high scores than young and older adults. In nutrition dimension, older adults had high scores than young and middle aged adults.
2. The self esteem and perceived health status were showed statistically significant difference among the three groups. Middle-aged adults had high scores in self esteem and young adults perceived good health status.
3. With regard to the relationship between health promoting life styles and all variables, self esteem and educational status correlated positively with health promoting life styles in all the three groups.
4. The combination of age, self esteem, educational status, sex, family income explained 24.1% of the variance of the likelihood of engagement in health promoting life styles inadulthood, specially self esteem and age were the predicter of health promoting life styles in the three groups.
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KeyWords
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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