The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of exercise behavior of employees who work for the Forestry Administration, Agriculture Committee of the Executive Yuan in Hualien County. One hundred fifty subjects from the 5(superscript th) section of the Forestry Administration in Hualien County completed a questionnaire on exercise behavior. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, and completely randomized design one-way ANOVA were used to analyze the colleted data. The significance level was set at a=.05. The results were: 1.The percentage of the employee exercise behavior of pre-contemplation period, contemplation period, preparation period, action period and maintenance period were 10.8, 15.2, 42.4, 0 and 34.8 respectively. 2.Based on the variance in different backgrounds participating in exercise, only age and sports competition participation experience reached a significant level. 3.Based on the exercise behavior influenced by health belief and self-efficacy for exercise, perceived benefits of exercise, perceived barriers to exercise and self-efficacy for exercise all reached the significant level in variations of different exercise periods. It is concluded that exercise behavior depends more on factors of the cognition of perceived benefits of exercise and self-efficacy for exercise than factor of perceived barriers to exercise. To efficiently create the healthy and happy living quality, exercise concept and habit building should be coordinated with the enhancement of environments characteristics.
