The Health Orientation Scale: A measure of psychological tendencies associated with health.

摘要: Health professionals have recently begun to examine the impact of psychological tendencies on people's physical health. The present investigation sought facilitate this research endeavour through development and validation a self-report instrument designed measure multiple health-related tendencies. Reliability analyses provided evidence internal consistency for subscales Orientation Scale. Other results indicated that both gender age jointly influenced responses A final set revealed variables measured by Scale were predictive women's men's self-reported compliance with health-promoting behaviours. discussion focuses potential uses in applied settings.