BACK TO BASICS: TRACING HEALTH AND RISK BEHAVIORS BACK TO WELL-BEING.

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    • Subject Terms:
      RISK-taking behavior; HEALTH behavior; WELL-being; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; BINGE drinking; PHYSICAL activity; UNHEALTHY lifestyles
    • Abstract:
      College students typically fall short of public health guidelines for healthy diet and physical activity, and a significant percentage engage in binge drinking and marijuana use. The main objective of this study was to examine the association between overall well-being and these health and risk behaviors. Students (n=363) completed online questionnaires measuring well-being (basic psychological needs, eudaimonic well-being, subjective vitality, and intrinsic and extrinsic life aspirations), diet, physical activity, and substance use.Within a structural equation modeling framework, the model fit the data, x2(n=334, 241)=504.65, p<.001, CFI=.96, TLI=.95, RMSEA=.057, CI90 [.05-.06]. Basic psychological needs was significantly related to intrinsic life aspirations (β=.50), extrinsic life aspirations (β=.42), subjective vitality (β=.53), alcohol use (β=.21), diet (β=.36), and physical activity (β=.20). To a lesser extent, eudaimoniawas associated with allpreviously mentioned variablesbesides alcohol use.These results suggest that interventions targeting college students may need to consider the motivational influence of general well-being underlying health and risk behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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