Exploring Role of Physical Activity and Emotional Exhaustion to improve Preventive Health Behavior among Students of Chinese Colleges

Objective: College’s students often face health issues while studying, therefore, they must look for factors to develop preventive health behavior. This study attempts to examine effect of physical activity, emotional exhaustion, student self-efficacy and resilience on preventive health behavior. Methodology: A cross-sectional research design was adopted to analyse data collected from the Chinese college’s students through a 7-Point Likert scale questionnaire. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to identify the respondents. The response rate of research was 73.22%. Smart PLS was employed to analyse the collected data. Results: The results of study reveal that physical activity, emotional exhaustion, student self-efficacy have significant effect on resilience. Resilience also has significant impact on preventive health behavior. Results of study also statistically confirmed the mediating effect of resilience. Conclusion: The importance of resilience to develop preventive health behavior was proved in this study. This research also emphasized on the vitality of physical activity, emotional exhaustion, and student self-efficacy in the context of Chinese college’s students.