Relationship between Health Promoting Behaviors, Self-compassion and Health Value among Medical Students

Abstract

The role of doctors in educating and enhancing health promoting behaviors in the society is immense. In this view, the status of health promoting behaviors among medical students and its association with self-compassion and health value and to check for the presence of any differences between the genders with respect to these three variables is examined in this study. Using purposive sampling, data was collected from a sample of n=187 participants and after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the analysis of correlation and independent sample t-test was done on the selected n=172 data. The results show that health promoting behaviors and self-compassion are at a moderate level and health value is high among medical students. The results also show that there is a significant positive relationship between health promoting behaviors, self-compassion and health value. However, no significant differences in gender has been found in all three variables. The implications of the study are discussed.