HEALTH-PROMOTING LIFE-STYLES OF BLUE-COLLAR, SKILLED TRADE, AND WHITE-COLLAR WORKERS

The health-promoting lifestyles of blue-collar, skilled trade, and whi te-collar workers wee examined. Specific purposes included determining differences in health-promoting behaviors, especially according to wo rker category, as well as ethnic identification, age, gender, educatio n, and marital status. A convenience sample of 638 workers in a midwes tern automotive components plant completed the Health-Promoting Lifest yle Profile (HPLP) and demographics questionnaire. In a multivariate a nalysis of variance (MANOVA) including all demographic variables, sign ificant differences were found in the mean scores on subscales of the HPLP by job category (2 subscales), age (3), gender (2), and education (4). Prior to including education in the MANOVA, significant differen ces were found by job category on 5 subscales of the HPLP. The effects of education eliminated the majority of the effects of job category.