Investigating the Relationship between the Exposure to Smartphone Health Applications and the Intention to Use the Applications to Guide Exercise Behavior

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dc.contributor.advisorXiao, Zhiwen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLee, Jaesub
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLiu, Youmei
dc.creatorYang, Xiaoqing
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-03T19:58:01Z
dc.date.available2020-01-03T19:58:01Z
dc.date.createdDecember 2014
dc.date.issued2014-12
dc.date.submittedDecember 2014
dc.date.updated2020-01-03T19:58:02Z
dc.description.abstractThis research studied how smartphone applications are influencing individual’s health-related attitudes and behaviors with regards to the obesity issue. Because there is no research studies that have focused on the impacts of smartphone applications on people’s attitude and behavior changes, especially among Chinese respondents, this research explored the relationships among exposure to health-related applications, attitudes towards health-related applications, attitude about the use of health-related applications, attitude about the behavior, self-efficacy for the use of health applications and doing exercise, subjective norms regarding using health applications and doing exercises intentions to use smartphone health applications to guide obesity prevention, and intention to exercise in the near future. An online survey was conducted involving 303 participants in the Henan Institute of Education forum whose readers are mainly from Zhengzhou city, Henan Providence in China.
dc.description.departmentCommunication, Jack J. Valenti School of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/5674
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectSmartphone health application
dc.subjectMedia
dc.subjectMass communication
dc.subjectAttitudes
dc.subjectBehaviors
dc.subjectExercise
dc.titleInvestigating the Relationship between the Exposure to Smartphone Health Applications and the Intention to Use the Applications to Guide Exercise Behavior
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentCommunication, Jack J. Valenti School of
thesis.degree.disciplineCommunication
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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