健康动机的研究进展与展望

健康动机是人们想要健康的愿望, 是影响人们健康行为的一个决定因素。本文回顾了有关健康动机的理论、测量和实证方面的研究。比较值得推崇的健康动机的动力过程理论认为健康动机是一个内在的动力过程, 并把健康动机对健康行为的作用分为四个阶段: 产生健康愿望、制定计划、采取行动和对行动的坚持。对健康动机的测量主要有一般测量和具体测量两类。实证研究表明健康动机能促进个体的健康行为并由此提高其健康水平。

An Evaluation of Theoretical and Empirical Research on Health Motivation

Health motivation is the desire to be healthy,and is one of the determinants of healthy behaviors.The purpose of this article was to review current and previous theoretical and empirical studies on health motivation.One promising health motivation theory argues that health motivation is an inner dynamic process,and that it consists of four stages:forming health motivational tendency,making plans,initiating action,and persisting in action.Measures of health motivation can be classified into two categories-ge...