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  title info:
    title: Validation of a lifestyle inventory for use with a college population
  name:
    name part: Schlueter, Dave Allen.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Bourgeois, Anthony E.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Hope, Lannes
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: McNamara, James
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Reilley, Robert R.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1987
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 130 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: Health psychology and health promotion are recent concepts in psychology and medicine. They are based on the idea that behavioral and psychosocial lifestyle factors contribute significantly to an individual's health status. A large body of literature compiled in the past thirty years has demonstrated the deleterious effects of such factors as smoking, alcohol use, limited exercise, and poor dietary habits. More recently, the influence of stress, depression, social support, locus of control, and self-confidence on health have been demonstrated. The need for information regarding an individual's lifestyle risk factors has also been shown, as several studies have shown that personalized feedback resulted in improved lifestyles. In order to provide such information, a comprehensive, multifactor lifestyle inventory is needed. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate some aspects of the validity of The Wellness Institute Young Adult Lifestyle Inventory for use with a college population. Specifically, the validity of the depression (Moods & Feelings) and the Usual Level of Stress scales was evaluated by comparing results obtained on these scales with standard criterion measures, the Beck Depression Inventory and the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, respectively. The validity of the lifestyle inventory was further evaluated by assessing the degree to which a composite of lifestyle scales correlated with criterion measures of illness. The instruments were administered to 140 undergraduate students. Results indicated a significant linear relationship between the Moods & Feelings scale and the Beck Depression Inventory and between the Usual Level of Stress Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Multiple regression analysis indicated that use of a combination of lifestyle scales significantly increased statistical prediction of illness and absenteeism. Conclusions drawn from the results are that the specific scales evaluated are valid measures of the con…
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Counseling Psychology Texas A & M University 1987
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-108).
  subject:
    topic: College students
    topic: Health and hygiene
  subject:
    topic: Health behavior
    topic: Testing
  subject:
    topic: Lifestyles
  subject:
    topic: Psychological tests
    topic: Validity
  subject:
    topic: Major counseling psychology
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-747083
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 881018
    record change date: 20220104090331.0
    record identifier: in00000739496
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng