Predicting exercise behaviors and intentions of Taiwanese urban high school students using the theory of planned behavior.

Purpose: This study applied the Theory of Planned Behavior to predict exercise behaviors and intentions of teenagers and analyzed sex differences.

Design And Methods: A prospective study design was employed to survey tenth-grade students in Taipei, Taiwan. The 951 participants reported their exercise attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control (PBC), and intentions, and their exercise behaviors were tracked 6 months later.

Virtue Existential Career Model: A Dialectic and Integrative Approach Echoing Eastern Philosophy.

Our Virtue Existential Career (VEC) model aims at complementing western modernism and postmodernism career theories with eastern philosophy. With dialectical philosophy and virtue-practice derived from the , the VEC theoretical foundation incorporates merits from Holland typology, Minnesota Theory of Work Adjustment, Social Cognitive Career Theory, Meaning Therapy, Narrative Approach Career Counseling, and Happenstance Learning Theory. While modernism considers a matched job as an ideal career vision and prefers rational strategies () to achieve job security; postmodernism prefers strategies toward openness and appreciates multiple possible selves and occupations, our model pursues a blending of security and openness via and interwoven with each other in a dialectical and harmonious way.