民眾從事健走行為意圖之研究

A Study of the Adults' Intentions on Brisk Walking Behavior

李柏慧(Po-Hui Lee) ； 劉淑燕(Su-Yen Liu)

《大專體育學刊》 7卷1期 (2005/03) Pp. 147-156

https://doi.org/10.5297/ser.200503_7(1).0011

摘要

The purpose of the study was to examine the intentions of the adults' brisk walking behavior from the attitude, the subjective norm, and the perceived behavior control, three principal variables based on the theory of the planned behavior. Age and the adults' perceived walking environments were particularly investigated to understand the intentions of adults participating in the walking behavior. Based on Ajzen's model of the theory of the planned behavior, a questionnaire titled ”the intention of participating in brisk walking” was developed and tested in the context of brisk walking behavior from randomly selected Taichung residents who were 18 years old or above. 106 valid questionnaires were collected and analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson product correlation and one-way ANOVA. The results were as follows. First, there were significant differences between the brisk walking intention and the perceived walking environment (F(subscript (2,102))=4.48, p＜.05); namely, the better walking environment can promote/encourage the intention of participating in brisk walking. Second, there were significant differences between the brisk walking intention and ages (F(subscript (3102))=4.29, p＜.05). It showed that older people had a higher intention for participating in brisk walking than younger people. Third, as expected, the attitude, the subjective norm, and the perceived behavior control had strongly positive relationships in which people's intention for walking behavior, especially the perceived behavior control a had greater correlation (r=.55) on the intention of people's walking behavior.

關鍵字

健走 ； 行為意圖 ； 計畫行為理論 ； 自覺健走環境 ； 年齡

並列摘要

The purpose of the study was to examine the intentions of the adults' brisk walking behavior from the attitude, the subjective norm, and the perceived behavior control, three principal variables based on the theory of the planned behavior. Age and the adults' perceived walking environments were particularly investigated to understand the intentions of adults participating in the walking behavior. Based on Ajzen's model of the theory of the planned behavior, a questionnaire titled ”the intention of participating in brisk walking” was developed and tested in the context of brisk walking behavior from randomly selected Taichung residents who were 18 years old or above. 106 valid questionnaires were collected and analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson product correlation and one-way ANOVA. The results were as follows. First, there were significant differences between the brisk walking intention and the perceived walking environment (F(subscript (2,102))=4.48, p＜.05); namely, the better walking environment can promote/encourage the intention of participating in brisk walking. Second, there were significant differences between the brisk walking intention and ages (F(subscript (3102))=4.29, p＜.05). It showed that older people had a higher intention for participating in brisk walking than younger people. Third, as expected, the attitude, the subjective norm, and the perceived behavior control had strongly positive relationships in which people's intention for walking behavior, especially the perceived behavior control a had greater correlation (r=.55) on the intention of people's walking behavior.

並列關鍵字

brisk walking ； behavioral intention ； the theory of planned behavior ； perceived walking environment ； age

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