This study was designed to identify the relationship between health perception and health promoting lifestyle of female elementary school teacher.
The data was collected during the period from November 1st, to December 28th 2004 and number of the fem...
This study was designed to identify the relationship between health perception and health promoting lifestyle of female elementary school teacher.
The data was collected during the period from November 1st, to December 28th 2004 and number of the female elementary school teacher was all but 757 ware who consented to this study and they ware selected from one of six education in Busan metropolitan city of education.
The instruments used for this study are as follows :
The health perception instrument was Health Perception Questionnaire developed by Ware(1979). The health promoting lifestyle instrument was Health promoting lifestyle Profile(HPLP) developed by Walker, Sechrist & Pender(1987) and partially amended by the author of this study. The Health promoting lifestyle Profile(HPLP) is parameterized by self actualization, health responsibility, nutrition & exercise, interpersonal support and stress management.
The data was analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, pearson's correlation coefficient, and Scheffe's test was used by SPSS program.
The results of this study were as follows :
1. The mean scores of the variables were as follows : health perception status was 2.82±0.24(maximum mean point was 4), health promoting lifestyle was 2.61±0.41(maximum mean point was 4). The highest subfactor of health promoting lifestyle was self actualization(3.07±0.50) and the lowest one of health responsibility(2.19±0.41).
2. Health perception was correlated with health promoting lifestyle (r=.499, p<.001). Health perception was correlated with subfactor of health promoting lifestyle that were self actualization(r=.489, p=<.001), nutrition & exercise(r=.409, p<.001), health responsibility(r=.328, p=<.001), interpersonal support(r=.369, p<.001), and stress management(r=.325, p<.001).
3. Among the general characteristic variables, economic status(F=3.161, p=.024) showed connections to health perception.
4. Among the general characteristic variables, age(F=4.052, p=.003), career(F=4.246, p=.002), economic status(F=7.519, p<.001) showed strong connections to health promoting lifestyle.
In conclusion, this study revealed that the health perception is an important factor related to the health promoting lifestyle of female elementary school teacher. The general characteristic variables showed strong connections to health perception and health promoting lifestyle.
Therefore, helping consciously the health perception and health promoting lifestyle of female elementary school teacher to do their job attainment and at same time it has to be a model to the student's health promoting lifestyle.