Relationship Between Adolescents’ Health Promoting Lifestyle Behaviors and Self-Efficacy

ABS TRACT Öz Aim: This research aims to determine the relationship between healthy lifestyle behaviors and self sufficiency of adolescents. Materials and Methods: The sample of this descriptive study has been constituted by 1749 students who were chosen via the stratified random sampling method. The students were picked from among the first graders of 12 different high schools, taking into consideration the type of school. In collecting the data for the study, Personal Information Form, giving identifying information about the 13-16 year-old adolescents; the Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP) developed by Walker, Sechrist and Pender (1987); and the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE) by Jerusalem and Schawazzer (1979) were applied. The analysis of the data obtained from this study was done by Shapiro Wilk test, Student t test, ANOVA test and Tukey honest significant difference test. Results: The HPLP average score of adolescents was 127.88±21.16 and at middle level; GSE average score was 31.53±5.02 and above middle level. The GSE and HPLP average scores of the male students were higher than those of the female students. It was found that the mean scores of HPLP were moderately correlated with GSE scale mean scores (r=0.471) (p<0.001). Conclusion: As a result, adolescents must have appropriate skills in order to perform healty lifestyle behaviours. Self-Efficacy is an important factor in the acquisition of these skills.