الدافعية الصحية في النشاط البدني و الأكل الصحي و علاقتها بالفعالية الذاتية الصحية لدى طلبة الجامعة

Abstract EN

The healthy motivation in physical activity and the improvement of health behaviors and healthy eating are a symbol of efforts towards a goal to develop and improve health behaviors.

Through this paper we try to determine health motivation in physical activity and healthy eating and its correlation with health self-efficacy.

Based on the descriptive design, the study was conducted on a sample 226 students, the majority were between 18 and 27 years old, the majority were women from different universities from Algiers and Blida.

In order to test the hypotheses, three scales were applied, namely, two scales were were applied to measure health motivation in physical activity and healthy eating, of Xu (2009) and self-efficacy scale.

The results showed a positive correlation between healthy physical activity motivation and healthy eating with healthy self efficacy.

The four dimensions of health motivation tendency, formation of health intention, initiation of health related action, and persistence in actions of physical activity and healthy eating have positive correlation with self-efficacy in his two dimensions: exercise and healthy eating.