Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between health literacy, exercise self-schema, decisional balance, and exercise adherence of exercise participating employees, and to verify the mediating effect of decisional balance based on the above relations among the factors.BR Method: Among employees participating in the exercise, 303 copies were used as the final analysis data. Participants responded to a questionnaire measuring decisional balance, health literacy, exercise self-schema, and exercise adherence. Data processing was conducted for the purpose of the study by using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 26.0 programs.BR Results: First, it was found that the exercise self-schema of employees participating in the exercise had a significant effect on exercise adherence while health literacy did not significantly affect exercise adherence. Second, the results revealed that the exercise self-schema of the employees who participated in exercise had a significant effect on the decisional balance, but health literacy did not significantly affect the decisional balance. Third, it was found that the decisional balance of the employees who are participating in exercise had a significant effect on exercise adherence. Fourth, the results showed that the decisional balance played a partial mediating role in the exercise self-schema and exercise adherence relationship of the employees who are participating in the exercise.BR Conclusion: In particular, this study is meaningful in that it derived results on which variables to strengthen continued exercise participation by applying a decisional balance variable useful for understanding changes in exercise behavior.

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