Motivation and Health Risk Behaviors Among City Employees Who Participate and Do Not Participate in Wellness Programming

<p>This descriptive correlational study includes analyzes of the relationships between preventative health action and motivational style for city employees participating and not participating in the city's current wellness program. This study also describes the profiles of the participant and non-participant groups. The data for the majority of the 76 subjects, 53 participants and 23 non-participants, were collected at a health fair held for city employees by undergraduate and graduate students from South Dakota State University. Two instruments were used to collect data. The Health Risk Appraisal Questionnaire (HRAQ) measures items such as demographic variables, blood pressure, cholesterol level, smoking status, etc. The Motivation for Physical Activities Measure (MPAM) contains five subscales to measure motivation.<br> Differences among motivational styles were found between subscale fitness and subscale attractiveness (see Table 5). The average subscale score for the subscale fitness for participants of the wellness program was significantly higher than the score of the non-participant group. The finding suggests that the participating group identified more with the reason of fitness as a strong motivator to participate in their primary physical activity than did the non-participating group. The average subscale score for the subscale attractiveness for non-participants of the wellness program was significantly higher than the score of the participant group of the wellness program. Findings suggest that the nonparticipant group participate in their primary physical activity to improve the attractiveness of their body more than the participant group. The two groups perform many preventative health actions. But this study found that the participants that currently belong to the city's wellness program were found to have more preventive health behaviors (see Table 4).</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - University Access Only

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Graduate Nursing

Year

1999

Author dc:creator

• Van Eimeren, Tiffanie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Penny Powers

• employee health programs
• health behavior
• health risk assessment
• motivation
• Nursing

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © 1999 Tiffanie Van Eimeren. All rights reserved

Language dc:language

en

Repository record dc:identifier

https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/904

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:openprairie.sdstate.edu:etd-1904