A Health Education Approach on the Improvement of Life Style among Schoolchildren and Students.

本研究旨在探讨健康行为与自尊的关系，以改善中小学生的生活方式。女大学生的两种健康习惯（“均衡营养”和“定期体育活动”）与一般领域的自尊得分呈正相关。健康行为高分组在一般、认知、社会、身体、身体及家庭领域的自尊量表上均显著高于健康行为高分组。除身体部位与吸烟经验有显著相关外，其他健康行为与自尊得分均呈正相关。通过对初中生吸烟行为、态度和环境与自尊关系的调查，发现男生的一般自尊、社会自尊、家庭自尊和身体自尊4个方面与其吸烟行为存在显著相关，男生的吸烟行为以吸烟有害健康为理由，对鼓励戒烟的行为施加压力。“在女孩中，我们还注意到自尊的所有6个领域与她们对朋友提出吸烟的态度之间的重要关系。这些结果表明，提高自尊可能有利于中小学生建立他们理想的健康习惯。

We have investigated the relationships between health practices and self-esteem to improve life style of schoolchildren and students. There was a positive relationship between two health practices ("well balanced nutrition" and "regular physical activity") and self-esteem scores of general areas among female university students. High score group of health practices significantly took the high scores among all self-esteem scales (general, cognitive, social, physical, body and family areas) of elementary schoolchildren. We could find a positive relationship between health practices and self-esteem scores with exception of that between physical areas and smoking experience among junior high school students. From the investigation of relationships between smoking behavior, attitude and environment, and self-esteem among junior high school students, among the boys we could find significant relationships between 4 areas (general, social, family and body areas) of the self-esteem and their smoking behavior "putting pressure on behavior which encourage no-smoking on the reason that smoking was no good for your health." Among the girls we also noticed the significant relationships between all 6 areas of the self-esteem and their attitude that the friends offered to smoke. These results would suggest that rasing self-esteem might be beneficial for schoolchildren and students to build up their desirable health practices.