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The purposes of this study were to understand health -promoting behavior of client visiting health-promoting center, to identify the major subscales affecting performance in health promoting behavior to facilitate nursing intervention for he promoting of this population and to test Fenders Health Promotion Model.

The subjects for this study were 177 sampled among clients from health promoting center in General Hospital at Teajon.

Data was collected by self reported question mires from February 11 to May 22, 1998.

Analysis of ter data was done by frequency, t - test. ANOVA, Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Stepwise multiple regrssion using SPSS-PC.

The results of the study were summarized as follows :

1. The mean score of performance in the health promoting behavior was 1(19.22 and range was 71 to 170. The subscale of the highest mean score was self actualization (3O.77) and the subscale of the lowest mean score was exercise(lO,50)

2. The most important variable in the health promoting behavior was the perceived self efficacy The perceived self efficacy explained Th.8% of the variance in health promoting behavior.

The combination of perceived self efficacy, perceived barriers, religion, perceived benefits, perceived symptom, and age explained 43.5% of the variance in health promoting behavior.

3. In the relationships between individual characteristics and experience and health promoting behavior, age, religion, the significant differences in the subscale of the health promoting behavior sex, educational state, previous occupation monthly income, marrital state, perceived symptom, and visiting plan of health-promoting center.

4. The health promoting behavior was statistically significant correlated with perceived benefits, perceived barriers, affect related to action, arid perceived self efficacy.