Health-Promoting Behavior's Relationships with Perceived Health Status, Academic Stress, and Subjective Happiness in Nursing Students

Purpose: To understand the relationships between health-promoting behaviors and perceived health status, academic stress, and subjective happiness in nursing students. Methods: A cross-sectional design was employed. The participants were 167 nursing students. We collected data using self-report questionnaires from November 1 to December 13, 2019. We used one-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s test, Pearson’s correlation, and hierarchical regression to analyze the data using SPSS 25.0. Results: Health-promoting behavior showed a positive correlation with perceived health status and subjective happiness and a negative correlation with academic stress. Subjective happiness and perceived health status were identified as the most relevant factors associated with health-promoting behavior. The explanatory power of health-promoting behavior was 52.1%. Conclusions: To promote health among nursing students, various interventions aimed at enhancing subjective happiness and perceived health status are needed. Such efforts will not only improve health-promoting behaviors but also contribute to enhancing the quality of care that the nurses will provide in healthcare settings in the future.