Health Promoting Behaviour among Middle Adulthood Personnel in a Public University
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This cross-sectional survey research aims to investigate health-promoting behaviour among middle adulthood personnel, and the association between personal and psychological factors and health-promoting behaviour among middle adulthood personnel in a public university. The sample is middle adulthood personnel working in a public university, including 200 study subjects, simple random sampling, and data collection by self-administration using health-promoting behaviour questionnaires, self-esteem questionnaires, and happiness questionnaires. These questionnaires’ respectively had Cronbach’s alpha coefficients for health-promoting behaviour, self-esteem, and happiness were .92, .87, and .91, respectively. Descriptive statistics, the Chi-square test, and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient were applied to examine the data.
The study results reveal that the mean age of the subjects is 46.46 (SD = 5.45) years. Most of them are female (67.50%). Most educational level is a master’s degree (50.5%). The majority of subjects have a moderate level of health-promoting behaviour (M = 86.38, SD = 12.85), a high level of self-esteem (M = 78.54, SD = 12.75), and a high level of happiness (M = 4.45, SD = .70). Analyzing association between personal factors and health-promoting behaviour is found that an educational level had a significant association (p<.05) with health-promoting behaviour as a whole (X2 = 38.95, Cramer’s V = .30). Self-esteem and happiness have statistically significantly moderately positive associations at p<.05 (r = .48, .56, respectively).
The results show that public universities should have a policy to organize activities to promote health-promoting behaviour, self-esteem, and happiness to middle adulthood personnel. As a result, the data can be brought to design activities improvement in each age group.
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