Apply the Transtheoretical Model on the Exercise Behavior of the Female College Students

• Main Authors: Tsuei-Ying Hung, 洪翠嬰
• Other Authors: Ruey-Hsia Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22468406587673580929

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 護理學研究所碩士班 === 92 === This study applied the Transtheoretical Model to explore the exercise behavior of female college students. The purposes were to understand the distributions of stages of exercise behavior change, and the distributions of personal factors, the perceived health state, the perception of peer support, the processes of change, the decisional balance and the self- efficacy in different stages of exercise behavior change. Six colleges were drawn randomly from thirteen Technical Colleges in Kaohsiung area. One grade was selected from grade 1 to grade 4 by cluster sampling from each selected school. From the one grade selected, one class was chosen randomly. All female students of chosen classes were used as study subjects for this research. Finally, a total of 228 students were recruited in the study. A structural questionnaire including basic personal data, stage of exercise behavior change, perception of peer support, decisional balance of exercise, self-efficacy of exercise and the processes of change in exercise was used to collect data. The reliability and validity of questionnaire were evaluated by internal consistency, test- retest reliability and content validity. Frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Chi-square test, one-way ANOVA and LSD multiple comparisons were used to analyze the data. The results showed that: (1) The distributions of female college students’ stages of exercise behavior was 22.8% in precontemplation stage , 49.6% in contemplation stage, 18.0% in preparation stage, 7.9% in action stage, and 1.8% in maintenance stage; (2) The subjects had medium level of perception of peer support in exercise and processes of change in exercise , upper medium level of perceived benefits of exer- cise and perceived barriers of exercise, and low to medium level of self- efficacy in exercise; (3) The participation in sports teams and the per- ceived health status were significantly related to the stages of exercise behavior change, yet the age and socioeconomic status were not; (4) The perception of peer support were significantly different in different stages of exercise behavior and increased across the stages of change; (5) The processes of change, decisional balance and self-efficacy of exercise were significantly different among different stages of exercise behavior. More- over, the processes of change, perceived benefits of exercise and self- efficacy gradually increased across the stages of change. Perceived barriers of exercise gradually decreased across the stages of change; (6) Except for “helping relationships”, the other nine processes of change including : “consciousness raising”, “dramatic relief”, “self-reevaluation”, “environmental reevaluation”, “social-liberation”, “self-liberation”, “counterconditioning”, “stimulus control” and “reinforcement manage- ment” were significantly different among different stages of exercise behavior. Moreover, these nine processes of change increased across the stages of change. The results of this study can serve as a reference to projects on the female college students concerning exercise interventions. We can use different exercise strategies for female adolescents in different stages of exercise behavior so that they can acquire regular exercise habits. In addition, extensively applying the Transtheoretical model to other research group of female college students can increase the generality of this research results. Making a longitudinal study can help realize the correlation between the change of related factors and stages of exercise behavior.