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271: 339:, and the sociology of health. It has been adopted as a term to describe contemporary approaches to nursing, psychiatry, integrative medicine, and healthcare architecture. The salutogenic framework has also been adapted as a method for decision making on the fly; the method has been applied for emergency care and for healthcare architecture. Incorporating concepts from salutogenesis can support a transition from curative to preventive medicine. 27: 283:"a global orientation that expresses the extent to which one has a pervasive, enduring though dynamic feeling of confidence that (1) the stimuli deriving from one's internal and external environments in the course of living are structured, predictable and explicable; (2) the resources are available to one to meet the demands posed by these stimuli; and (3) these demands are challenges, worthy of investment and engagement." 310:
According to Antonovsky, the third element is the most important. If a person believes there is no reason to persist and survive and confront challenges, if they have no sense of meaning, then they will have no motivation to comprehend and manage events. His essential argument is that "salutogenesis"
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The "sense of coherence" is a theoretical formulation that provides a central explanation for the role of stress in human functioning. "Beyond the specific stress factors that one might encounter in life, and beyond your perception and response to those events, what determines whether stress will
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continuum". Salutogenesis now encompasses more than the origins of health and has evolved to be about multidimensional causes of higher levels of health. Models associated with salutogenesis generally include wholistic approaches related to at least the physical, social, emotional, spiritual,
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enabled individuals to make sense of and manage events. He argued that over time, in response to positive experiences provided by successful use of different resources, an individual would develop an attitude that was "in itself the essential tool for coping".
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which studies the causes of diseases). He observed that stress is ubiquitous, but not all individuals have negative health outcomes in response to stress. Instead, some people achieve health despite their exposure to potentially disabling stress factors.
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survivors. Despite going through the dramatic tragedy of the holocaust, some survivors were able to thrive later in life. The discovery that there must be powerful health causing factors led to the development of salutogenesis. The term was coined by
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and task significance. Job control implies that employees have more authority to make decisions concerning their work and the working process. Task significance involves "the experience of congruence between personal
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is not robust to weather the current situation. This causes illness and possibly even death. However, if the sense of coherence is high, a stressor will not necessarily be harmful. But it is the balance between
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Golembiewski, J. (2009). Moving from theory to praxis on the fly; Introducing a salutogenic method to expedite mental healthcare provision. Paper presented at the Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health
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Becker, C. M., Glascoff, M. A., & Felts, W. M. (2010). "Salutogenesis 30 Years Later: Where do we go from here?" International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 13, 25-32. Can access at:
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emotionally impaired by the stress. Antonovsky wrote: "this for me was the dramatic experience that consciously set me on the road to formulating what I came to call the 'salutogenic model'."
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Bergstein, M., Weizman, A., & Solomon, Z. (2008). Sense of Coherence Among Delusional Patients: Prediction of Remission and Risk of Relapse. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 49, 288-296.
306:: a belief that things in life are interesting and a source of satisfaction, that things are really worthwhile and that there is good reason or purpose to care about what happens. 294:: a belief that things happen in an orderly and predictable fashion and a sense that you can understand events in your life and reasonably predict what will happen in the future. 300:: a belief that you have the skills or ability, the support, the help, or the resources necessary to take care of things, and that things are manageable and within your control. 666:
Dilani, A. P. D. (2008). Psychosocially supportive design: A salutogenic approach to the design of the physical environment. Design and Health Scientific Review, 1(2), 47-55.
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and work activities, which is accompanied by strong feelings of identification with the attitudes, values or goals of the working tasks and feelings of
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Antonovsky, Aaron. Studying Health vs. Studying Disease, Lecture at the Congress for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Berlin, 19 February 1990.
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Golembiewski, J. (2012). "Salutogenic design: The neural basis for health promoting environments." World Health Design Scientific Review 5(4): 62-68.
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Golembiewski, J A (June 2012). "Moving from theory to praxis on the fly; Introducing a salutogenic method to expedite mental healthcare provision".
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depends on experiencing a strong "sense of coherence". His research demonstrated that the sense of coherence predicts positive health outcomes.
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pandemic, one's sense of coherence was shown to be associated with the likelihood of their adherence to the pandemic safety guidelines.
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Antonovsky, A. Unraveling The Mystery of Health - How People Manage Stress and Stay Well, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1987
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component is considered to be linked to job control as well as to access to resources. It has also been considered to be linked with
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Golembiewski, J A (5 March 2010). "Start making sense; Applying a salutogenic model to architectural design for psychiatric care".
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England, M., & Artinian, B. (1996). Salutogenic Psychosocial Nursing Practice. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 14(3), 147-195.
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cause you harm is whether or not the stress violates your sense of coherence." Antonovsky defined Sense of Coherence as:
163:. The salutogenic question posed by Aaron Antonovsky is, "How can this person be helped to move toward greater health?" 363:
is considered to be related to the feeling of participation and motivation and to a perceived meaning of the work. The
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Rakel D, Fortney L. The Healing Encounter. In: Integrative Medicine. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2018:20-26.
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In salutogenic theory, people continually battle with the effects of hardship. These ubiquitous forces are called
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had positive emotional health, compared to 51% of a control group. His insight was that 29% of the survivors were
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separating health and illness". He described the relationship as a continuous variable, what he called the "
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Salutogenic organizations and change: The concepts behind organizational health intervention research
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Salutogenic organizations and change: The concepts behind organizational health intervention research
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and focuses on factors that support human health and well-being, rather than on factors that cause
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Comprehensive overview of salutogenesis and its contribution to health promotion theory.
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component may be influenced by consistent feedback at work, for example concerning the
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Antonovsky, A. "Health, Stress and Coping" San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1979
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Gregor J. Jenny, Georg F. Bauer, Hege Forbech Vinje, Katharina Vogt, Steffen Torp,
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Coping with Existential Threats and the Inevitability of Asking for Meaningfulness
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that determines whether a factor will be pathogenic, neutral, or salutary.
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Salutogenics perspectives are also considered in the design of offices.
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Antonovsky viewed his work as primarily addressed to the fields of
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In his formulation, the sense of coherence has three components:
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Antonovsky's theories reject the "traditional medical-model
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intellectual, vocational, and environmental dimensions.
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will cause the coping mechanisms to fail whenever the
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Medical approach focusing on factors favouring health
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