Education
Volume: 104 , Issue: 1 , July Published Date: 08 July 2022
Publisher Name: IJRP
Views: 308 , Download: 383 , Pages: 682 - 695
DOI: 10.47119/IJRP1001041720223510
Publisher Name: IJRP
Views: 308 , Download: 383 , Pages: 682 - 695
DOI: 10.47119/IJRP1001041720223510
Authors
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1 | Kernell Warren M. Rodil |
Abstract
Maintaining an optimal level of wellness is absolutely crucial to live a higher quality life. Wellness matters because everything relates to the person?s well-being. In turn, well-being directly affects one?s actions and emotions. It?s an ongoing circle. Therefore, it is important for everyone to achieve optimal wellness in order to subdue stress, reduce the risk of illness and ensure positive interactions. (Kirkpatrick, 2017) Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought an abrupt change in the life of everyone that has altered different aspects of life. Due to the current situation, among others, faculty members of Cavite State University are also experiencing high level of stress and their mental health need to be addressed. Inactivity and changes on daily routine also affects their health and behavior. In connection, education is used to form a knowledge base necessary to make decisions and choices regarding behavior. With this, faculty members and instructional leaders are expected to have better understanding and knowledge when it comes to wellness. Wellness knowledge focuses on broader sense of idea on how an individual becomes stable and healthy. These concepts are the key to academic achievement, personal growth and confidence, career success and social connection within the community. Faculty members/teachers which have one of the most important roles in the society must fully understand the notion of wellness so that they can also attain good attitudes, high motivation to do physical activities and develop positive heath behavior to become a healthy well-being. Questionnaire in the form of checklist was utilized in the gathering of needed information and in the completion of the investigation. The statistical treatments applied in the study consisted of mean, standard deviation and Pearson-R correlation/ Regression analysis. Related readings on the literature and studies were gathered in the formulation of the hypothesis and the conceptual framework which was presented in a form of paradigm. The focal purpose of this study is to measure the wellness knowledge and health behavior on the physical activity among faculty members in Cavite State University. This specifically sought to answer the level of wellness knowledge of faculty members in Cavite State University, level of health behavior among faculty members in Cavite State University, level of physical activities among faculty members in Cavite State University and the significant Effect of wellness knowledge and health behavior to the physical activities of faculty members in Cavite State University. The scope of this study is centered only on measuring the wellness knowledge and its effect to physical activity and health behaviors among faculty members in Cavite State University. The data and information gathered by using survey questionnaire composing of 60 questions that are answered by the 100 faculty members at Cavite State University as a respondent of this study.