Study Of Health Behaviour Of College Students In Shanxi Province

Objective:To understand the relationship between the college students’health behavior and achievement motivation, family environment and personality traits, and to change and cultivate college students’health behavior patterns, to offer basis on college personnel training and promote college students’health behavior education through exploring the influence factors of health behavior.Methods:This paper take the students of Shanxi Medical University, Shanxi University, Taiyuan Polytechnic University and Colleges Of Traditional Chinese Medicine Of Shanxi as the object, using the college students health behavior questionnaire written by feng Huang, college students achievement motivation scale, eysenck personality questionnaire short scale, and family environment scale. Descriptive research and analytical methods were adopted to analyze college students’health behavior and its influencing factors.Results:(1) Totally650questionnaires were sent out, and recovery rate was98.15%, and effective rate was95.4%.247male (39.8%) and373female (60.2%), medical students335people (54.0%) and285(46.0%) of the medical students were investigated.(2) The health behavior score of263students (42.2%)was less than102, and that of357(57.6%) was more than or equal to102. From the overall, the college students’ health behavior was in the middle and upper level. The scores of learning related behavior, support personal living habits, interpersonal behavior and stress management behavior, each dimension score were33.67±5.30.31.01±5.09、21.15±3.24,16.24±3.02, respectively. In the aspect of social support behavior, family location for "urban" respondents scored above "the villages and towns or countryside", and only children scored lower on the non-one child, and medical specialty is lower than the students of other specialty(P<0.05). In terms of stress management behavior, boys scored higher than girls (P<0.05).In terms of personal life habit, girls scored higher than boys (P<0.05). In terms of learning related behavior, non-medical professional scored higher than the medical profession (P<0.05).The overall achievement motivation score of college students were2.46±8.87, and the pursuit of success and to avoid failure of the scores were50.68±6.82、49.7±7.37, respectively. College students’ health behavior and achievement motivation and its two dimensions (the pursuit of success and avoid failure) are positively correlated, the Pearson correlation coefficient were0.612,0.571,0.272(P<0.01) respectively,.(4) The college students’ health behavior and family environment and the intimacy, the emotional expression, success, moral religion, organized, contradiction has weak correlation, the correlation coefficient were0.212,0.245,0.535,0.140,0.122,0.526,0.122(P<0.01), respectively. The health behavior of college students has nothing to do with personality traits (P>0.05).(5)The Logistic regression results of college students health behavior showed that, the pursuit of success and failure avoidance, emotional expression, organized, N neurotic behavior were the main influencing factors for college students health behavior, which the OR values were1.186,1.044,1.798,1.696,1.165.Conclusion:(1)The college students’health behavior in the survey were upper level, among them, learning related behavior was best, the rest were support personal living habits, interpersonal behavior and stress management behavior in turn. It reminded us the contemporary college students stress management ability needs to improve.(2)Overall achievement motivation of measured object was low, avoidant achievement motive level was too high, and which was the main cause of the low levels of achievement motivation. For the college students’ education, health and personal prospects, as well as the entire enterprise, social, ethnic, and national long-term development and progress was bad.(3)The college students’health behavior was correlated with achievement motivation, family environment, etc, and which showed that we needed health promoting behavior that be more positive and corresponding with health risk behavior.