Motivations for Healthy Lifestyle in Railroad Employees
<p>The aim of the paper is to present the results of a survey of railroad employees’ motivation for a healthy lifestyle. For this purpose a specific questionnaire was developed. The study was performed on 245 Slovene railroad workers (168 of them blue-collar ones). The great majority (66.9%) w...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Promet (Zagreb) |
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| Online Access: | http://www.fpz.unizg.hr/traffic/index.php/PROMTT/article/view/267 |
| Summary: | <p>The aim of the paper is to present the results of a survey of railroad employees’ motivation for a healthy lifestyle. For this purpose a specific questionnaire was developed. The study was performed on 245 Slovene railroad workers (168 of them blue-collar ones). The great majority (66.9%) were found to be overweight or obese (BMI 25 or more), with no significant difference between blue- and white-collar workers. The great majority of them were in general aware of having unhealthy nutrition and an unhealthy lifestyle.</p> <p><strong> </strong>Most of the employees felt the need to improve (at least in part) their nutrition (74.7%) and lifestyle (78.0%); the majority (67.8%) also declared that they could adopt a healthier lifestyle despite the constraints of everyday life and work conditions; however, 57.6% said that they had been already putting considerable effort into a healthier nutrition and lifestyle. Thus the <em>effort</em> needed to overcome constraints toward a healthier lifestyle seems to be the key problem: the majority (54.3%) would rather choose walking than running or other intensive forms of exercise; they are not ready to do it for more than one hour per day (60%), and they are not ready to give up permanently food that they like and that is considered unhealthy. The differences in motivations for a healthy lifestyle between blue- and white-collar workers were not significant at the 0.05 level.</p> <p>Further research in this field is needed; however, it seems that the methods of efficient marginal modifications of lifestyle are required.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>KEYWORDS</strong></p> <p>human resources management, railroad, blue-collar workers, white-collar workers, healthy lifestyle, motivations</p> |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5320 1848-4069 |