The present study tested the hypotheses that high levels of social support and conscientiousness would be significant predictors of college students' engagement in health promoting behaviors, and high levels of perceived stress, neuroticism, depression, and anxiety would be significant predictors of college students' engagement in health defeating behaviors. Furthermore, it was predicted that the combination of factors identified in the prediction of health behaviors would be a significantly better predictor of such behaviors than these factors in isolation. Fifty-one undergraduates completed self-report measures of the variables of interest. Contrary to predictions, health promoting behaviors were found to be significantly correlated with anxiety, neuroticism, extraversion, and perceived stress. The only variable found to be significantly correlated with health defeating behaviors was conscientiousness. None of the variables tested were found to be significant predictors of health promoting or health defeating behaviors.
