EXAMINING ATTITUDES TOWARD WELL-BEING: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY IN ADULT MEN

Abstract

Being healthy means not only not being sick but also being physically, mentally, and socially healthy. It will be very important to determine the attitudes that will increase the quality of life of the person, improve his or her perceptions about health, and determine the situations that can reflect these attitudes in his or her life for a lifetime. The aim of this study is to investigate adult men's health-related perceptions according to some variables and to examine the relationship between their approaches to the culture of being healthy and their gains in physical activity levels. The survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the study. The research group consisted of 827 adult male volunteers aged 19–60 years and over from different regions of Turkey. Online questionnaires were used to collect the data. The data were collected in two parts. The first part is the collection of personal information. In the second part, the questionnaire developed by Alfery et al.(2019)  and Uğraş et al.(2021). The Culture of Being Healthy (Healtism) Scale, adapted into Turkish, was used. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS 25.0 software. Percentage and frequency analyses were performed to examine statistical distributions. While an independent sample t-test was used for comparisons between two groups, one-way analysis of variance (one-way ANOVA) tests were applied for comparisons between three or more groups, and the significance level was set at 0.01It was determined that the state of being healthy was high at an early age, but this situation decreased with age. Single men, university and university graduate men, adult men with high weekly physical activity levels, and individuals with VKI data at an ideal weight had higher awareness of being healthy.