中国人大学生の効果的なストレスマネジメント行動の変容ステージと変容プロセスとの関連性

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The transtheoretical model (TTM) regards of health behavior change as progression throughout the five stages: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. Processes of change such as strategies and techniques to enhance the progression among TTM concepts facilitate stage transition. Use of experiential processes (affective and/or cognitive strategies such as seeking information) for behavioral change increase and tend to peak at the precontemplation, contemplation, and preparation stage and then decease. Behavioral processes (behavioral strategies such as a seeking social support) tend to be used most at the action and/or maintenance stage. This study examined relationships between stages and processes of change for effective stress management and with covariance of gender differences in Chinese college students. Effective stress management was defined as any form of healthy activity such as exercising, meditating, relaxing, and seeking social support, which is practiced for at least 20 minutes. Eight hundred and seventy one Chinese college students participated in this paper-pencil survey. Four experiential processes and five behavioral processes peaked in the action or maintenance stages. This study represented an initial but important test of validity of applying processes of change and gender difference to stress management in Chinese college students. Results partially supported its application.