Date of Award
2008
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science
Program
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Abstract
This study examined health promoting behaviours in healthy, normal functioning adults to investigate the relationships among engagement in health promoting behaviours, perceptions of health-related quality of life, and personality. Three tests were used, including a 20-item Mini-International Personality Item Pool (Mini-IPIP), 26-item World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) measure, and an 81-item measure of Health Promoting Behaviours (HPB). Results based on 50 graduate students indicate that the HPB measure has good internal consistency for the full scale (Cronbach’s alpha = .884) and acceptable consistency for individual subscales. Correlations between HPB and WHOQOL subscales ranged from .052 to .821; correlations between HPB and Mini-IPIP subscales ranged from - .421 to .558. The strongest correlation was observed between the Psychological domains of the HPB and WHOQOL measures. The strongest correlation for the HPB and Mini-IPIP was between the Psychological domain of the HPB and the Conscientiousness domain of the Mini-IPIP. Results suggest that health promoting behaviours are related to personality and health-related quality of life.
Recommended Citation
Miller, Stacy L.M., "RELATIONSHIP AMONG ENGAGEMENT IN HEALTH PROMOTING BEHAVIOURS, PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE, AND PERSONALITY" (2008). Digitized Theses. 4746.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/4746