Exercise Behavior and Related Factors in Career Women - the Case of a Bank in Taipei City

職業婦女運動行為及其相關因素 －以台北市某家銀行為例

陳真美(Chen-Mei Chen) ； 張媚(Mei Chang)

《The Journal of Nursing Research》 12卷3期 (2004/09) Pp. 180-190

摘要

面臨生理機能提早老化及多樣慢性病盛行的現況，健康促進概念已成為公共衛生專家優先考量的重點，而規律運動則是在健康促進及疾病的預防佔了很重要的角色。本研究目的在探討職業婦女運動行為與其相關因素，樣本來自於台北市某銀行的女性行員，年齡分布2056歲，共361位。從事規律運動行為僅佔8.6%，不曾從事運動的理由以「沒有時間」佔多數。運動自我效能為預測規律運動、總運動量之共同因子。故建議運動介入計畫必須是建築在女性的自我效能，設計「以家庭為導向」的活動，由資方主動倡導運動，獎勵員工的運動行為，以提昇員工的運動自我效能，進而增進員工的健康。

關鍵字

職業婦女 ； 運動行為 ； 規律運動

並列摘要

With the trend of premature aging of physiological functions on the rise and a variety of chronic diseases continuing to spread, health promotion has become the top concern among public health experts. Regular exercise plays a pivotal role in both health promotion and disease prevention. This study aims to investigate the exercise behavior of career women and related factors. The samples were drawn from the female employees of a bank in Taipei, totaling 361 persons, all aged between 20 and 56. The result shows that only 8.6% of the respondents exercise regularly and that among the reasons for not doing any exercise, “Don’t have time for it” tops the list. Self-efficacy in exercise is found to be the common factor for predicting both exercise regularity and total exercise amount. Exercise intervention programs thus must be developed on the basis of female self-efficacy with a “family-oriented” activity design. It is therefore suggested that employers promote exercise and encourage exercise behaviors to help enhance employee self-efficacy as well as employee health.

並列關鍵字

Career women ； exercise behavior ； regular exercise

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