Abstract
The present study examines the factorial structure and assesses the psychometric properties of the adapted multidimensional Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II Scale, considering a sample of Italian university students who participated to an online survey. The original 52-items Scale showed a high overall internal consistency. Four of the six subscales were associated with good values of the Cronbach’s α coefficient, whereas two subscales had lower values. Hence corrected item-total correlation was calculated and 26 items that decreased the scale’s reliability were deleted. The remaining 26 items were first subjected to Principal Component Analysis that suggested a conceptually meaningful five-factor model. This result was further supported by the first-order confirmatory factor analysis, in which all the factor loadings were statistically significant. The internal consistency and the composite reliability for the reduced version of the Scale and its subscales have shown a good reliability for the measurement models. The multidimensionality of the scale was also confirmed by a second-order factor model.
Highlights
The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined the concept of health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” ([1] p. 100)
The present study examines the factorial structure and assesses the psychometric properties of the adapted multidimensional Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II Scale, considering a sample of Italian university students who participated to an online survey
The results showed that almost all of the items reported values within the +2 to −2 range for skewness and kurtosis; for two items [hplp_29 and hplp_41] in the Stress Management (STMAN) subscale, the kurtosis value was higher than 3, indicating deviations from the normal distribution
Summary
The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined the concept of health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” ([1] p. 100). The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined the concept of health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” Health and well-being are commonly needed to achieve a sufficient or satisfactory level of existence, and they are essential concepts for health promotion, i.e., the process of enabling people to have more control over their health and improve it [2]. Health has been defined as a positive dynamic process [3] and not merely an extension of illness-avoidance behavior. Practicing daily health-promoting lifestyle behaviors is an important component [2] of maintaining and improving health
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