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Social Resources, Health Resources, and Preventive Health Behavior: Patterns and Predictions
Author(s) -
Kulbok Pamela Porter
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1985.tb00681.x
Subject(s) - behavioral risk factor surveillance system , environmental health , health education , sample (material) , psychology , construct (python library) , test (biology) , resource (disambiguation) , gerontology , public health , medicine , computer science , population , nursing , paleontology , computer network , chemistry , chromatography , biology , programming language
This study was designed to test the resource model of preventive health behavior (PHB) that incorporates social and health resources as causes of good health habits. The findings were based on survey data collected in 1979 on a national probability sample of 3,025 adults. Factor analysis was used to construct indexes of PHB and of health. Five PHB factors were regressed on education and income; on three health factors; and on control variables age, sex, and race. The model predicted dental and fitness factors. Higher education and the health factor of better health comparison consistently predicted the PHB factors. It was concluded that several types of PHBs are unrelated to one another and that the causes of these specific PHBs do vary.