[A study of factors influencing on health promoting lifestyle in the elderly--application of Pender's health promotion model].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing health promoting lifestyle in the elderly.

Method: The subject of this study was 305 elderly person over the age of 60, living in rural and urban, Korea. For the analysis of collected data, descriptive statistics, t-test, analysis of variance and stepwise multiple regression were used for statistical analysis with SPSS statistical program.