TY - JOUR
T1 - Knowing is Half the Battle
T2 - the Association Between Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Quality of Life Among Four Groups with Different Self-Perceived Health Status in Taiwan
AU - Ou, Huang tz
AU - Su, Chia Ting
AU - Luh, Wei Ming
AU - Lin, Chung Ying
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors appreciate the assistance in providing data by the following institutes and individuals. Data analyzed in this article were collected by the research project “The Taiwan Social Change Survey” Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica sponsored by the National Science Council, Republic of China (NSC83-0301-H001-050-B1). This research project was carried out by Sun Yat-Sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy of Academia Sinica, and directed by Dr. Chin-Chun Yi. The Office of Survey Research of Academia Sinica is responsible for the data distribution. The views expressed herein are the authors’ own.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht and The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS).
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - Physical activity (PA) is a contributing factor toward an important global issue: quality of life (QoL). The aim of this study was to investigate the association between PA and QoL regarding different self-perceived healthy/unhealthy male and female adults to determine whether self-perception of health status plays an important role for appreciating PA. Data were obtained from the Taiwan Social Change Survey comprising 1643 participants (828 men, 815 women). The mean age was 43.98 years (SD = 14.44). Four hierarchical linear regressions were constructed to explore the unique contribution of PA to QoL in each group. As expected, PA was significantly positively related to QoL; however, the explained variations in terms of R2 are quite different: 8.8 % self-perceived unhealthy men and 1.2 % healthy men, 4.1 % unhealthy women and 0.6 % healthy women. Among the four groups, self-perceived healthy females had a lower level of PA and may not have appreciated the effects of PA on QoL. Our results suggest that people who perceive themselves as unhealthy engage in more PA than self-perceived healthy people. Therefore, encouraging self-perceived healthy people to stay alert to maintain their physical health is crucial to QoL.
AB - Physical activity (PA) is a contributing factor toward an important global issue: quality of life (QoL). The aim of this study was to investigate the association between PA and QoL regarding different self-perceived healthy/unhealthy male and female adults to determine whether self-perception of health status plays an important role for appreciating PA. Data were obtained from the Taiwan Social Change Survey comprising 1643 participants (828 men, 815 women). The mean age was 43.98 years (SD = 14.44). Four hierarchical linear regressions were constructed to explore the unique contribution of PA to QoL in each group. As expected, PA was significantly positively related to QoL; however, the explained variations in terms of R2 are quite different: 8.8 % self-perceived unhealthy men and 1.2 % healthy men, 4.1 % unhealthy women and 0.6 % healthy women. Among the four groups, self-perceived healthy females had a lower level of PA and may not have appreciated the effects of PA on QoL. Our results suggest that people who perceive themselves as unhealthy engage in more PA than self-perceived healthy people. Therefore, encouraging self-perceived healthy people to stay alert to maintain their physical health is crucial to QoL.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11482-016-9488-1
DO - 10.1007/s11482-016-9488-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84984876930
VL - 12
SP - 799
EP - 812
JO - Applied Research in Quality of Life
JF - Applied Research in Quality of Life
SN - 1871-2584
IS - 4
ER -