Health-Protective Behavior: An Exploratory Study

Psychosocial correlates of emotional distress and risk behavior in african-american women at risk for hiv infection

“…Each behavior was rated as yes (1) or no (0). These items were not expected to be highly intercorrelated because health risk behaviors tend to be independent (Harris & Guten, 1979;Mechanic, 1979). The average inter-item correlation was .12 (range .02 to .32).…”

A comparative study of health-promoting lifestyles in agricultural and non-agricultural workers in Japan

“…In terms of age, some studies reported that older age groups tended to have healthier lifestyles than younger age groups [11,15,16]. In terms of gender, many studies suggested that the frequency and intensity of performance of healthy behaviors were better in females than in males [17][18][19][20][21]. There have also been some studies on the importance of job type, which showed some differences in health behaviors among people with different occupations for individuals with various ethnic origins [22][23][24][25][26][27][28].…”

Número Completo/Full Number

“…El comportamiento de salud está estrechamente relacionado con la motivación y algunos modelos y teorías incorporan la motivación hacia la salud en sus constructos teóricos, además de los que ya se construyeron teniendo en cuenta esta variable, como por ejemplo el Modelo de Creencias de Salud (Hochbaum, 1958;Rosenstock, 1974), la Teoría de la Acción Razonada (Ajzen y Fishbein, 1980;Fishbein, 1967Fishbein, , 1980Fishbein y Ajzen, 1972, 1975, 2009, la Teoría de la Conducta Planeada (Ajzen, 1985(Ajzen, , 1988(Ajzen, , 2001(Ajzen, , 2006(Ajzen, , 2008, la Teoría de la Motivación Protectora (Harris, 1979(Harris, , 1996Harris y Middleton, 1994;Prentice-Dunn y Rogers, 1986;Rogers, 1975Rogers, , 1983Rogers, , 1985, la Teoría de la Autoeficacia (Bandura, 1977(Bandura, , 1984(Bandura, , 1986, entre otras.…”