A causal model of health promoting behaviors among university students
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In this study, the consistency of an assessment model for students' health-promoting behaviors was accessed with the empirical data. The direct and indirect effects of variables on health-promoting behaviors among undergraduate students of Loei Rajabhat University were explored. Study tools included questionnaires for health-promoting behaviors, perceptual factors, influential factors, and personal attribute factors. Data were analyzed using basic statistics and linear structural equation analysis. The causal model of health-promoting behaviors among 360 students agreed with the empirical data. Health-promoting behaviors were significantly affected by influential factors, perceptual factors, and personal attribute factors and were indirectly affected by perceptual factors and personal attribute factors. Influential, perceptual, and personal attribute factors accounted for 87.5% of the variance of health-promoting behaviors.
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