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Question #1: What matters most to 2426 college students nationwide as they consider their health?
This question is answered by:
a) answering the subjective question directly and assigning responses to one of eleven groups,
b) asking students to rank their 13 health dimensions and tally which health dimension was selected #1 the most, and
c) via median analysis, identify which one of the 13 health dimensions rates the highest.
Question #2: What demographics, worldviews, and worldview emphatics affect what matters most to 2426 college students nationwide?
This question is answered by developing split plots and comparing subgroup results within the following:
a) institution type-state or private, faith-based university,
b) geographic location of institution-northeast, south, midwest, or west,
c) age-18>25, 26>33, 34+,
d) perceived gender-female or male,
e) race and internationality-African American, Asian American, Caucasian American, Hispanic American, International, and NA/NH/OPI,
f) perceived self/family income-lower, middle and upper,
g) relationship status-not, in, engaged or married,
h) academic major-health/PERL, general sciences, nursing, social sciences, sport management, teacher education, none of the above and undecided,
i) how we came to be worldview-no god, yes evolution, yes god, yes evolution, yes god, no evolution, think about but not answer, or neither think about nor answer,
j) how we came to be worldview emphatics-yes or no,
k) who are we worldview-mind & body only/no afterlife, mind & body & spirit/no afterlife, mind & body & spirit & soul/no afterlife, mind & body & spirit & soul/yes afterlife, will think about but not answer, will neither think about nor answer, and
l) who are we worldview emphatics-yes or no?
Question #3: What health dimensions are 2426 college students most satisfied with?
This question is answered by
Optimal Health Defined and the 13 Health Dimensions Introduced
"Optimal Health is both the outcome and the process of living life exceptionally well. It is dynamic, ever-changing, and is best achieved by purposely relating and skillfully interacting with the health dimensions that matter most." (Salscheider, 2015)
Historic Definitions:
1st Century Rome- "Mens sana in corpore sano."
"A healthy mind in a healthy body" is a famous Latin quotation from Satire X of the Roman poet Juvenal. Often translated as: "a sound mind in a sound body."
A more recent definition of Health:
World Health Organization (WHO, 1946/1948)
"a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
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Mind Health: interpreting sensory data, thinking, attributing, & making quality decisions
(1) Emotional Health: feeling good, fostering resiliency, contentment, and stability, addiction-free.
(2) Intellectual Health: advancing knowledge/discernment via quality unbiased thinking and decision-making. -
Body Health: cellular to biomechanical system efficiencies
(3) Physical Health: efficient bodily functioning via fitness, nutrition, and rest, experience minimal chronic pain.
(4) Recreational Health: merging refreshment with leisure activity, play and rest.
(5) Sexual Health: experiencing appropriate sexual thoughts and appropriate physical expressions, sometimes with exhilaration, often with intimacy, not under coercion or violence, often limited by culture and law, and often satisfied with the current level of sexual expression. -
Social Health: the quality of your interpersonal relationships
(6) Family Health: quality of committed relationships with mom, dad, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, grandparents, or even the cat and the dog; experience minimal family dysfunction.
(7) Friend Health: quality of committed relationships with non-family and non-partner acquaintances.
(8) Love/Mate Health: quality of a committed relationship with a mate, spouse, partner, girlfriend, or boyfriend; sharing love together, emotionally romantic. This is not about sex (that's under sexual health.
(9) Spiritual Health: belief and/or relationship with a power greater than self, or oneness with nature/universe, or relating purposely or eternally with God, may consider the concept of eternal life, or TBD, or spiritual health does not exist. -
External Health: the quality and quantity of your environmental, financial, occupational, & political assets
(10) Environmental Health: the quality of the climate around you, the physical & mental conditions of your community where you live, including and expanding beyond clean air, clean water, and sustainability.
(11) Financial Health: acquiring and appropriating assets/finances to an acceptable threshold and enjoying financial stability and sustainability.
(12) Occupational Health: job fulfillment and personal achievement, creating value in what you do at a safe workplace or home.
(13) Political Health: enjoying and exercising freedom, being at liberty (pursuit of happiness including freedom of expression and movement, owning property, voting, etc.).
Understanding, prioritizing, and evaluating your 13 health dimensions
For the past 20 years, Dr. Salscheider has been challenging college students to identify what matters most to them when they think about their health. He did so initially by asking them to prioritize their six components of health. After 20 years of student feedback, those six components were eventually expanded to thirteen and categorized into 4 groups.
Dr. Karl Salscheider
After thirty-two years of teaching health at Minnesota's Bemidji State University, Dr. Salscheider is focusing his academic "encore years" on taking his health priorities project to a national level.
The NHPP is a 20 question, thought provoking, health enhancing, electronic survey that takes about 10-15 minutes to complete. University faculty and deans are encouraged to examine the NHPP to see if this national research opportunity is a good fit for their students.
"Insightful, life-changing, and fun!"
Students after prioritizing their 13 components of health
Dr. Karl Salscheider
After thirty-two years of teaching health at Minnesota's Bemidji State University, Dr. Salscheider is focusing his academic "encore years" on taking his health priorities project to a national level.
The NHPP is a 20 question, thought provoking, health enhancing, electronic survey that takes about 10-15 minutes to complete. University faculty and deans are encouraged to examine the NHPP to see if this national research opportunity is a good fit for their students.