Osobowość typu D i poczucie koherencji a podejmowanie zachowań zdrowotnych przez młodzież

Abstract

The aim of this study was to establish whether the dimensions of type D personality – negative affectivity and social inhibition, and sense of coherence determine adolescents’ health behaviours. The research was conducted on the group of 211 people – 96 boys and 115 girls aged 17–19 years (M = 18.01, SD = 0.49). The research tools were: Health Behaviours Inventory (IZZ), author: Z. Juczyński (2001); The scale to measure the type D personality DS-14, Author: J. Denollet, Polish adaptation of N. Ogińska-Bulik, Z. Juczyński, J. Denollet (Juczyński, Ogińska-Bulik, 2009); Life Orientation Questionnaire (SOC-29), author: A. Antonovsky, Polish adaptation of J. Koniarek, B. Dudek, Z. Makowska (1993). In order to indentify variables that determine young people’s health related behaviour regression analysis and structural modeling were used. The studies have shown that in the group of boys the direct indicator of health behaviour is the dimension of sense of coherence – a sense of meaningfullness, while in the group of girls – a type D personality dimension, which is negative affectivity.