Multidimensional self-esteem is strongly correlated with adolescent health promotion behaviors, explaining approximately 70% of the variation in these behaviors.
Cross-Sectional (n=3,260)
Yes
Socio-economic background and multidimensional self-esteem significantly impact adolescent health promotion behaviors, suggesting self-esteem improvement as a focus for future health education.
Effect estimate: R = 0.87
p-value: p=<0.01
Objective: To explore the relationships between multidimensional self-esteems and health behaviors among adolescents by demographic background factors, so as to provide an important reference for the intervention of health promotion behavior and self-esteem education in the future. Methods: Taking adolescents in Chongqing as the object, this paper investigates the students in 24 primary and secondary schools (half of health promotion schools and half of non-promotion schools) by means of Stratified random sampling, and Using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 19.0 statistical analysis software to process the collected data. Results: 1) gender and age significantly affected adolescents' self-esteem and health promotion behavior, which showed that boys's perception of self-esteem was lower than that of girls, while girls were more likely to implement health promotion behavior than boys; 2) Children from two parent families or families with higher parental education are more able to implement health promotion behavior and enjoy higher self-esteem, while family economic status has no effect on adolescents' self-esteem and health promotion behavior; 3) Compared with students in ordinary schools, adolescents in health promotion schools (HPS) have higher self-esteem and can implement health promotion behavior more; 4) The higher the self-esteem of adolescents, the better their health promotion behavior; The higher the sense of interpersonal ability, the more able to implement social support behavior; The higher the sense of physical ability and physiological value, the more able to implement sports behavior; The higher the sense of academic ability, the more able to implement nutritional behavior; The higher the external recognition and physiological value, the better the performance of nutritional behavior and stress management; The higher the internal evaluation, the more able to implement health responsibility and exercise behavior. Conclusion: Socio-economic background can indeed have a direct or indirect impact on adolescent health promotion behavior, and multidimensional self-esteem can explain about 70% of the variation of health promotion behavior, which seems to suggest that improving adolescent self-esteem is the focus of health promotion and health education in the future.
Liu et al. (Tue,) conducted a cross-sectional in Health promotion behaviors (n=3,260). Multidimensional self-esteem vs. Lower self-esteem was evaluated on Correlation between overall self-esteem and overall health promotion behavior (R = 0.87, p=<0.01). Multidimensional self-esteem is strongly correlated with adolescent health promotion behaviors, explaining approximately 70% of the variation in these behaviors.