Abstract
The study aimed to compare health status and lifestyle in university students. The participants were college freshmen from physical education majors (N = 195, Mean = 20.9, SD = 1.87) and the school of Urban and Environmental majors (N = 195, Mean = 21.73, SD = 0.93) in Dalian, China. The Diagnostic Inventory of Health and Life habit (DIHAL.2) scale (Tokunaga, 2003) was administered to all participants. A one-way sample t-test was used to analyze the difference in both interdepartmental and gender effects. Results of t-test indicated that there were significantly difference in physical health, social health and life habit. Moreover, students majoring in physical education were scored lower on the mental health domain compared to the physical and social health domains. The practical implication of this study focused on finding the difference between the students who regularly exercised and those who did not, and considered the characteristics of gender. Finally, we hope that this study would be available for physical education in university.
Highlights
While China’ economy is growing at a dramatic rate, young people are having trouble getting a job
A t-test was performed to assess the difference in health status and lifestyle for gender in the same major (Table 1)
The results indicated that men with a PE major had significantly higher scores than women with a PE major on physical health, social health, exercise habit, Dietary habit and rest habit
Summary
While China’ economy is growing at a dramatic rate, young people are having trouble getting a job. It is recommended that university students should study regularly. They take quite a while to study major course and English test which are conditions for graduating from university and will help them gain an upper hand for commence employment. Students’ awareness regarding the benefits to exercise increased, they reported poor health and not getting enough exercise. Recent research at a Chinese university showed that over 60% of university students though they did not exercise enough and nearly 20% of them were dissatisfied with their health (Wang & Sugiyama, 2014)
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