Predicting Factors of Overweight Prevention Behaviors among Graduate Students

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study attitude, self-effcacy with the overweight prevention behaviors, overweight prevention behaviors, and predicting factors among graduate students. The samples of this research consisted of 230 graduate students. Data were collected by using questionnaire constructed by the researcher (reliability = 0.80) and analyzed by using percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis were also applied for correlations of the factors and the overweight prevention behaviors. The results showed that the graduate students had the  average of the attitude at the fair level, selfeffcacy and overweight prevention behavior were also at the medium level. The attitude and self-effcacy were able to predict the overweight prevention behaviors with 88.9% (R2 = 0.889, F=910.437). The fndings suggest that related persons should provide activities for creating positive attitude and self-effcacy among the graduate students to motivate them to succeed in overweight prevention.