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Worldview and health promoting behavior: a causal model.

A Kagee¹, D N Dixon

¹Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104, USA.

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

|June 2, 2000

Summary

Organismic thinkers are more likely to engage in health promoting behaviors (HPB). Women tend to adopt an organismic worldview, leading to higher HPB compared to men, while socioeconomic status showed no effect.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Health Behavior Research

Background:

Pepper's (1942) worldview theory provides a framework for understanding cognitive orientations.
Health promoting behavior (HPB) is crucial for individual well-being and public health.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the relationship between worldview and health promoting behavior (HPB).
To explore the influence of sex and socioeconomic status on this relationship.

Main Methods:

Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed for data analysis.
Participants (N=259) completed inventories assessing worldview, HPB, social class, and sex.
Statistical analysis utilized SPSS and AMOS software.

Main Results:

A modest positive relationship was found between organismic worldview and HPB.

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Organismic thinkers demonstrated higher engagement in HPB compared to mechanistic thinkers.

Women were more likely to endorse an organismic worldview and exhibit higher HPB than men.

No significant association was observed between socioeconomic status and HPB.

Conclusions:

Worldview, particularly an organismic orientation, is a modest predictor of health promoting behaviors.
Sex influences HPB indirectly through its association with worldview.
Socioeconomic status does not appear to moderate the relationship between worldview and HPB.