The effectiveness of strength intervention as an educational approach to a personal health course for university students /
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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1985.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy Link to ProQuest copy |
| Abstract: | The purpose of the study was to investigate the use of strength intervention, a motivational intervention employed to facilitate lifestyle changes toward wellness in corporate and hospital programs, as an educational technique for university students attending personal health education class. The study determined the effect of strength intervention on students' self-concept, health knowledge, selected health behaviors and selected psychological indicators. The relationship among 18 variables was explored. The sample was two classes of the course "Health Problems of Modern Man", one as the control group and the second as the experimental group. The classes were taught by the same instructor, on the same days during the same semester using the same text and syllabus. Both classes completed identical pretests and posttests on the same days. The instruments used for pretests and posttests were The Lifestyle Inventory, The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, and the Health Knowledge Test. Each class received the Lifestyle Portfolio, contracted for behavioral change, and developed and used support groups within the class. The only difference was the use of the strength intervention method with the experimental group. The results revealed no overall difference between the groups but an overall difference across time, pretest to posttest, and an interaction between groups and time. Results of post hoc procedures showed that both groups improved, but the experimental improved more than the control, and the significant difference was in the cognitive variable, health knowledge for the control group, and the same variable plus the behavioral variable, prudent diet, and the psychological variable, mood, for the experimental group. Conclusions: (1) Although additional time was spent on strength intervention contracting, the strength intervention group improved as much as the lifestyle contracting group on cognitive scores. (2) The strength intervention method was more effective than lifestyle contracting in improving the psychological variable, mood, and the behavioral variable, prudent diet. (3) Neither the strength intervention nor the lifestyle contracting method was significantly effective in changing the affective variable scores in the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale. (4) The strength intervention method was demonstrated to produce no statistically significant change in the other selected behavioral or psychological variables of this study. |
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| Item Description: | Typescript (photocopy). Vita. "Major subject: Health Education." |
| Physical Description: | xi, 234 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-125). |