The Effects of Health Promotion Lifestyles and Social Support on the Relationship between Role Stress and Health for Women with Multiple Roles

This research is a longitudinal study. The main research purpose is to discuss: 1. The change of multiple role women’s health promotion lifestyles, social support, role strain and mental health; 2. The influence mechanism of multiple role women’s health promotion lifestyles and social support on role strain and mental health.he research subjects are the new master or PhD students of school year 2006 in nursing, education, social work, and counseling. Our female subjects must be working women and students at the same time who live with their husbands. There are two data collection time: one is the first and second week of the new semester. The other one is the first and second week of mid-term exam period. The method of data collection is survey, including five measurements, demographic data, role strain, health promotion lifestyles, social support and mental health.fter getting the data, t-test is used to compare mean difference between attrition and non-attrition subjects for demographic data and key variables in the beginning of the semester. For demographic data employed descriptive statistic data analysis, such as, mean, standard deviation, median, frequency and percentage. Using t-test and Pearson correlation to test the relations of two variables and using paired t-test to compare the means of variables between the beginning of the semester and mid-term exam, this two data shows: the role strain of mid-term exam is higher than the role strain in the beginning of the semester but there is no significant change in family support between the beginning of the semester and mid-term exam. Institution support decreases significantly during mid-term exam while school support increases significantly during mid-term exam. However, health promotion lifestyles during mid-term exam become worse. As for mental health, depressive and anxious symptoms become worse significantly during mid-term exam. Finally, hierarchical multiple regression was used to analyze the influence mechanism of health promotion life styles and social support on role strain and mental health. The results are: 1. Health promotion lifestyles and social support have direct effect: Health promotion life styles, and social support can directly affect mental health with role strain. 2. Health promotion lifestyles have antecedent effect. (1) The self-actualization in health promotion lifestyles can affect the influence of role strain on depressive symptoms during mid-term exam period in the semester. (2) The stress management in health promotion lifestyles can affect the influence of role strain on somatic symptoms and anxiety symptom during mid-term exam period in the semester. 3. Health promotion lifestyles have mediator effect. (1) Self-actualization during mid-term exam period can minimize the influence of role strain on depressive symptoms and anxiety symptom in the semester. (2) Nutrition in the semester can increase the influence of role strain during mid-term exam period on anxiety symptom. (3) Nutrition in mid-term exam period can minimize the influence of role strain in the semester on somatic symptoms during mid-term exam period. (4) Considering the six dimensions of health promotion life styles and the three sources of social support, school support in the semester can increase the influence of role strain on anxiety symptom during mid-term exam period. 4. Health promotion life styles and social support both do not have moderator effect. This research can be the reference for the intervention time in the future health promotion life styles projects.