Research Article

233707551
psyc630
Introduction
Hypotheses

• Hypothesis #1 Controlling for age, subjective social status, marital status, and gender, greater
sense of community will buffer against the adverse effects of low engagement in physical activity
on physical HRQoL
• Hypothesis #2 Controlling for age, subjective social status, marital status, and gender, greater
sense of community will buffer against the adverse effects of low engagement in physical activity
on psychological HRQoL.
• Hypothesis #3 Controlling for age, subjective social status, marital status, and gender, greater
sense of community will buffer against the adverse effects of low engagement in healthy eating on
physical HRQoL.
• Hypothesis #4 Controlling for age, subjective social status, marital status, and gender, greater
sense of community will buffer against the adverse effects of low engagement in healthy eating on
psychological HRQoL
Methods
• Sample
• 290 participants were recruited through purposive sampling
• 18 and older were included
• Instruments
• Brief Sense of Community Scale
• Health Promoting Life style Profile II
• World Health Organization Quality of Life BREF
• Procedure
• Survey was administered using MTurk (online source for data collection)
• Analysis
• Hierarchical Regression
Results
• Social status significantly predicted physical health related quality of
life
• Age,gender and social status significantly predicted psychological
health related quality of life
• There was no significant relationship between healthy eating and sense
of community
Critical Analysis
• Marginalized group has been chosen which is rarely studied.
• Benefits health interventionists who seek to promote health among
African Americans
• Focuses on multilevel predictors of health related quality of life
unlike traditional researches where predictors related to individual
are overemphasized.
• Participants were recruited online. Some segment of the target
population might be underrepresented