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Health-promoting behaviors of rural adolescent women
G M Felton1, Q Liu, M A Parsons
1Department of Family and Community Health Nursing, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208, USA.
Abstract:
A part of a larger study of the health behaviors of adolescent women, this investigation examined health-promoting behaviors and the influence of cognitive, social, and environmental factors on these health-promoting behaviors of rural adolescent women. The sample consisted of 128 rural African-American and white adolescent women. Forty-four percent of the variance in health-promoting behavior of this sample was explained by five variables: self-image, problem solving, mother's education, employment status, and family structure. Self-image was the most salient predictor of health-promoting behavior, explaining 33% of the variance.