Investigating the Relationship between the Exposure to Smartphone Health Applications and the Intention to Use the Applications to Guide Exercise Behavior

This research studied how smartphone applications are influencing individual’s health-related attitudes and behaviors with regards to the obesity issue. Because there is no research studies that have focused on the impacts of smartphone applications on people’s attitude and behavior changes, especially among Chinese respondents, this research explored the relationships among exposure to health-related applications, attitudes towards health-related applications, attitude about the use of health-related applications, attitude about the behavior, self-efficacy for the use of health applications and doing exercise, subjective norms regarding using health applications and doing exercises intentions to use smartphone health applications to guide obesity prevention, and intention to exercise in the near future. An online survey was conducted involving 303 participants in the Henan Institute of Education forum whose readers are mainly from Zhengzhou city, Henan Providence in China.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Grantor

University of Houston

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Yang, Xiaoqing

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Xiao, Zhiwen

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Lee, Jaesub
• Liu, Youmei

• Smartphone health application
• Media
• Mass communication
• Attitudes
• Behaviors
• Exercise

Statement dc:rights

• The author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10657/5674

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:uh-ir.tdl.org:10657/5674