Correlates of the Health Statuses of the Faculty Midlifers

Authors

  • Galvin Alaan Galeon University of San Jose-Recoletos

Keywords:

Asian teachers, Correlates, Faculty at midlife, Filipinos, Health statuses, Midlife

Abstract

Between the school years of 2009 to 2012, the turnover record of the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R), Cebu City, Philippines showed that permanent faculty members who left the institution were all midlifers. Their reasons varied from health issues to greener pasture elsewhere. This study then sought to explore the health statuses of the faculty midlifers of the USJ-R. The data were collected through survey conducted among the 106 faculty midlifers of the university. This study applied multivariate analyses to the survey data using Pearson-Moment of Correlation to determine the relationship between the socio-demographic profile of the research participants and their health statuses. This research revealed that faculty midlifers are generally well physically. They showed emotional maturity and have positive outlook towards midlife. More so, their health conditions are significantly related with their sex, age, years of teaching, educational attainment and income.

Author Biography

Galvin Alaan Galeon, University of San Jose-Recoletos

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychology and Library Information Science

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2015-01-20

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Galeon, G. A. (2015). Correlates of the Health Statuses of the Faculty Midlifers. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 19(2), 319–329. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/3319

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