跳至主要内容

Italian Psychometric Validation of the Multidimensional Students’ Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile Scale

Health and well-being are commonly needed to achieve a sufficient or satisfactory level of existence, and they are essential concepts for health promotion. Furthermore, health has been defined as a positive dynamic process and not merely an extension of illness-avoidance behavior.

A health-promoting lifestyle is a multidimensional pattern of self-initiated actions and perceptions that serve to maintain or enhance an individual’s level of wellness, self-actualization, and fulfillment. Practicing daily health-promoting lifestyle behaviors is an important component of maintaining and improving health.

The present study examined the factorial structure and assesses the psychometric properties of the adapted multidimensional Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) Scale, considering a sample of Italian university students who participated to an online survey. The study was conducted in the middle of the 2015-2016 academic year (around 75 days) to avoid seasonal holidays and stressful periods that are usually concentrated at the beginning of the semester (because of the novelty of the challenge of college) and the end of the semester (because of examinations). In this period, 642 students responded to the request to participate to the survey, of which 517 (80.53%) answered almost all required information in the online questionnaire.

Internal consistency was assessed for the entire instrument as well as for each subscale. The HPLP-II Scale showed a high overall internal consistency: the Cronbach’s α coefficient for the total 52-item scale was 0.90. Four of the six subscales were associated with good values of the Cronbach’s α coefficient, whereas two subscales had lower values. Hence corrected item-total correlation was calculated and 26 items that decreased the scale’s reliability were deleted. The remaining 26 items were first subjected to Principal Component Analysis that suggested a conceptually meaningful five-factor model. This result was further supported by the first-order confirmatory factor analysis, in which all the factor loadings were statistically significant.

In conclusion, the results indicate that the HPLP-II Scale seems to be a valuable tool for studying representations of the promotion of well-being and lifestyle, and its Italian version could be applied to the Italian population as a tool to evaluate a health-promoting lifestyle.


Article by Giulia Savarese, et al, from Italy.


Full access: http://mrw.so/4y820H

评论

发表评论

此博客中的热门博文

Identifying Sustainable Practices for Tapping and Sap Collection from Birch Trees

Tapping and collecting sap from birch trees ( Betula , sp.) for the production of beverages and syrup is gaining increased levels of interest. Although the practice of tapping birch trees and collecting sap has been ongoing for millennia across the world, there remain some critical data needed in order to make science-based decisions about the production practices required to optimize yields and ensure sustainable outcomes are achieved in the long-term. In this study, experiments were conducted to determine two pieces of information essential to identify practices necessary to ensure tapping trees for birch sap collection were both sustainable and profitable—the selection of the time to initiate tapping birch trees to obtain maximum yields, and the volume of nonconductive wood (NCW) associated with taphole wounds in birch trees. The yields obtained from various timing treatments varied between sapflow seasons, but indicated that using test tapholes to choose the appropriate ti
发表评论
阅读全文

Incorporation of High-Altitude Balloon Experiment in High School Science Classrooms

High-altitude balloon is a balloon, filled usually with helium or hydrogen that ascends into an area called “near space” or stratosphere. The most common type of high-altitude balloons are weather balloons. Other purposes include use as a platform for experiments in the upper atmosphere. Modern balloons generally contain electronic equipment such as radio transmitters, cameras, or satellite navigation systems, such as GPS receivers. The mission of the High-Altitude Balloon Experiment (HABE) is to acquire supporting data, validate enabling technologies, and resolve critical acquisition, tracking, and pointing (ATP) and fire control issues in support of future space-based precision pointing experiments. The use of high-altitude balloons offers a relatively low-cost, low-vibration test platform, a recoverable and reusable payload, worldwide launch capability, and a 'near- space' emulation of the future space systems operational scenarios. More recently, several university
1 条评论
阅读全文

Esophageal Carcinogenesis

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50380#.VDy9v1fHRK0 Author(s)   Naoki Watanabe 1 , Masahito Shimizu 2 , Takahiro Kochi 2 , Yohei Shirakami 2 , Takuji Tanaka 1,3* Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Diagnostic Pathology (DDP) & Research Center of Diagnostic Pathology (RC-DiP), Gifu Municipal Hospital, Gifu, Japan . 2 Department of Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan . 3 Department of Tumor Pathology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan . ABSTRACT Esophageal cancer is the sixth leading cause of cancer death and remains one of the least survivable cancers. Esophageal cancers show wide variations in incidence in different pop
发表评论
阅读全文