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Kayhan, Recep Fatih; Üstün, Ümit Dogan – Journal of Educational Issues, 2019
This paper aimed to analyze the health beliefs of physical education and sports teachers regarding sportive recreational activities in the extent of their socio-demographic features. The study sample consisted of 286 (101 male & 185 female) physical education teachers. In the study to collect data, we used the "Health Belief Scale for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Li, Jian; Roessler, Richard T.; Rumrill, Phillip D. Jr.; Krause, James – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2020
Background: Social and environmental participation endeavors are theorized to shape one's general satisfaction with the overall employment situation facing people with MS. Objective: Responding to a national survey of the employment concerns of Americans with multiple sclerosis (MS), this study examined the extent to which factors at the…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Employment Level, Age Differences, Educational Attainment
Johnston, David W.; Lordon, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; Suziedelyte, Agne – Centre for Economic Performance, 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Knowledge Level, Health
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Strough, Jonell; McFall, Joseph P.; Schuller, Kelly L. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2010
We used hypothetical vignettes to examine whether older adults' endorsement of interpersonal strategies for dealing with health-related (arthritis) everyday problems varied as a function of marital status, gender, and the severity of the problem. Adults 60 years and older (N= 127, M= 71.40 years, SD = 7.21) rated interpersonal (i.e., discuss with…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Severity (of Disability), Interpersonal Competence, Vignettes
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Poltavski, Dmitri; Holm, Jeffrey; Vogeltanz-Holm, Nancy; McDonald, Leander – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2010
Associations of behavioral health risks and healthy behaviors with self-reported health-related quality of life measures were investigated in a Northern Plains American Indian sample. Participants were surveyed in person using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. The results showed that regular physical activity was significantly…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, American Indians, Quality of Life, Health Behavior
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Dupre, Matthew E.; Meadows, Sarah O. – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
Recent studies linking marital status and health increasingly focus on marital trajectories to examine the relationship from a life course perspective. However, research has been slow to bridge the theoretical concept of a marital trajectory with its measurement. This study uses retrospective and prospective data to model the age-dependent effects…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Marriage, Marital Status, Divorce