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Health Education Research, Vol. 3, No. 3, 317-323, 1988
© 1988 Oxford University Press

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The interrelationship among preventive health habits

Jennie J. Kronenfeld, Nancy Goodyear1, Russell Pate, Aaron Blair2, Henry Howe3, Gwynne Parker3 and Steven N. Blair4

Department of Health Administration, College of Health, University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208
1SAS Institute, Research Triangle Park NC
2SAS Institute, Research Triangle Park Gaithersburg, Maryland
3Liberty Corporation Greenville, SC
4Institute for Aerobics Research, Cooper Clinic Dallas, TX, USA

This paper raises questions about the interrelationship among various aspects of health habits and health behaviors. Health habits, some of which relate to major risk factors for important chronic diseases, are sometimes assumed to be highly related to one another, so that one can classify people who live ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’ lifestyles. This paper examines the interrelationship among the various health habits, examining only personal health habits, and excluding factors relating to the use of health care services for prevention. Using a dataset from Liberty Life Corporation headquarters employees, factor analysis is used to examine this issue. This paper concludes that the six health habits of alcohol consumption, smoking, management of stress, diet, maintenance of proper weight and leisure time exercise do not form one dimension of health-related behavior. For both men and women, three separate factors are identified, although the precise grouping of habits differs by sex as does the strength of the individual level relationships as indicated by correlational analysis.


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