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Self‐care, Health Locus of Control, and Health Value Among Faculty Women
Author(s) -
Lakin Jean A.
Publication year - 1988
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.1525-1446.1988.tb00558.x
Subject(s) - locus of control , health care , correlation , negative correlation , analysis of variance , demography , pearson product moment correlation coefficient , psychology , medicine , gerontology , statistics , social psychology , mathematics , sociology , political science , geometry , law
Using a randomly selected sample of 104 faculty women at a midwestern university, relationships among health locus of control, health value, and exercise of self‐care agency (ESCA) were investigated. T tests, analysis of variance, chisquare, and Pearson product moment correlation coefficients were used to test hypotheses. A predicted positive correlation between ESCA and internality ( P 0.001) and a negative correlation between ESCA and chance ( P 0.001) were supported. Results also supported hypotheses of relationships between ESCA and health value ( P 0.05), health status ( P 0.001), and satisfaction with health ( P 0.001).