Med students of various study years structural substantive peculiarities of health behavior

Abstract

This paper presents the structure and descriptive content attitude peculiarities health behavior among 1st, 3rd, and 6th-year med students. With the use of the complex questionary "Health behavior" by R.А. Berezovskaya as well as the empirical data interpretation and mathematical-statistical processing hypothesis about structural substantive differences of an interrogated phenomenon among med students of various study years were confirmed. But the assumption about the leading part in the structure of the axiological-motivational component relationship was confounded. This component plays a bonding part between knowledge and personality health behavior. For each study year, specific health behavior features are determined by the formula: I know – I don’t worry. I know – I do (for 1st study year); I know – I worry – I do (for 3rd study year); I know – I don't worry. I know – I do. I worry – I don’t do (for 6th study year). The axiological-motivational component has an indirect effect on the health behavior structure through other components separate block-questions: 1st year – cognitive and behavioral; 3rd – cognitive and emotional; 6th – emotional and behavioral. The substantive components' content of health behavior is observed for 1st-year students with the life experience taken to account, for 3rd-year students – by the gradual life knowledge and behavior modes displacement with acquired special knowledge and skills, for 6th-year students – by the general "professionalization" of health behavior and reliance on the competencies formed in the learning process in the core doctor assets. The general structure of health behavior for all med students has a pronounced “knowledgeable” nature with the leading part of the cognitive component in combination with positive emotions and individual actions of self-preserving behavior. The axiological-motivational component in the general structure of the attitude, presented in isolation from the available knowledge, experienced feelings, and executed behavior, confirms the conclusions in the scientific literature that for young people health and a healthy lifestyle is a possibility rather than a desirable model of behavior in which the value of health is actively declared by all, but is realized only by a small part of students.