Relationship between Health Promoting Behavior and Psychological Variables

초록

This research was attempted to examine the associating factors to health promoting behavior, which based on the Pender's health promotion theory. The results were as follows; 1. There was significant postive relationship between health promoting behavior and self-esteem(r=.346, p=.000), health perception(r=.233, p=.000), hardiness(r=.336, p=.000) and self-efficacy(r=.475, p=.000). 2. The result of stepwise mutiple linear regression analysis, self-efficacy was the most powerful predictor in health promoting behavior(22.3%). Self-efficacy, hardiness, health perception and self-esteem accounted for 35.7% of the variance in health promoting behavior.