The influence of health awareness on university students' healthy lifestyles: The chain mediating role of self-esteem and social support.

ABSTRACT: As university students face increasing pressures in a highly competitive society, unhealthy lifestyles have become a common phenomenon. Health awareness is considered a critical factor in promoting healthy behaviors, yet its mechanism of action on university students' healthy lifestyles, influenced by self-esteem and social support, remains unclear. This study aims to explore the relationship between health awareness (HA) and healthy lifestyles (HL) and to examine the mediating roles of self-esteem (SE) and social support (SS) in this relationship. Based on social cognitive theory, this study initially constructs a theoretical model of the impact of health awareness on healthy lifestyles among university students, introducing self-esteem and social support as mediating variables to further

SUBMITTER: Zhang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11466429 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature