title: Association of health self-empowerment with health-promoting behaviors among chronically ill African American and non- Hispanic White adolescents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Health Self-Empowerment Theory (health motivation, health self-efficacy, health self-praise, and active coping) was examined as a predictor of levels of engagement in four health-promoting behaviors (health responsibility behaviors, regular exercise, healthy eating, and stress management behaviors) among low-income African American adolescents and non-Hispanic White American adolescents living with at least one chronic illness.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-seven participants completed measures of the Health Self-Empowerment Theory variables and of level of engagement in each of the four health-promoting behaviors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Regression analyses revealed that the combined Health Self-Empowerment Theory variables significantly predicted level of engagement in the four examined health-promoting behaviors. Additionally, active coping, health self-praise, and health motivation each significantly predicted one or more of the examined health-promoting behaviors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Health self-empowerment may be useful for informing interventions designed to foster engagement in health-promoting behaviors among low-income adolescents living with one or more chronic illnesses
authors.forename: Carolyn M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Tucker
authors.forename: Guillermo M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Wippold
authors.forename: Tasia M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Frederic F
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Desmond
authors.forename: Tya M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Arthur
authors.forename: Ashley M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Butler
authors.forename: Rebecca R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Pauly
authors.forename: Sharon L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Surrency
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*