Confirmatory Factor Analysis Test of an Hierarchical Model of Health Behaviors
Abstract
Appropriate measures of health behavior patterns are required to accurately identify factors influencing those patterns. Precise knowledge of these influential factors can be important in programs to improve health practices as a means of maintaining or enhancing personnel readiness. The importance of such programs to the U.S. Navy is indicated by the existence of the multifaceted Health and Physical Readiness Program, which includes a number of components concerned with the modification of lifestyle patterns. The present study extended prior work which suggested that a broad range of activities falling under the general rubric of health behaviors could be divided into two large first-order subsets could be divided into two second-order subsets of behaviors that were especially strongly correlated. From a measurement perspective, the first-order subsets of behaviors could be regarded as indicators of individual differences on two general dimensions of health behavior, which were labelled preventive health practices and risk taking behaviors.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 06, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA223931
Entities
People
- Linda K. Hervig
- Ross R. Vickers
- Terry L. Conway
Organizations
- Naval Health Research Center