英文摘要 |
The purpose of this research is to obtain the exercise behavior of young girls, and to explore the determinant factors for exercise behavior of the stage of change of the Transtheoretical Model. Focus group interviews were used to collect data. A total of one hundred female freshman students from two national universities (university A and university B) participated in the entire six sessions, with each school taking three sessions in October through November 31, 2003. All interviews were tape-recorded and the transcripts were content analyzed. A 'focus group method' was utilized, which included recording, transcribing and analyzing the young girls' opinions about exercise behaviors. The inter-coder reliability reached 0.91. The principle themes suggested that exercise behavior of young girls was attributed to experiential, cognitive and behavioral dimension. The findings showed that many young girls did not have accurate ideas about the definition of exercise behavior to improve their health. The participants' engagement in exercise behavior was related to the perception of exercise, the past experience of exercise, their interests and the request from schools. The main barriers of young girls' exercise behavior included the psychological, social and environmental factors. Among those barriers, psychological factors like Laziness, fearing tan or perspiration, worrying about image, was the most perplexed for young girls in exercise. The results can help health workers to gain a deeper understanding of the exercise behavior for young girls. The researchers proposed some recommendations as the basis of further intervention strategies for the female adolescent. |