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6.9 Salutogenic theory
Salutogenesis is the process of factors which contribute to a person’s health,
as opposed to processes behind illness, disease and sickness (pathogenesis).
Salutogenetic theory was developed by Aaron Antonovsky from his study
of concentration camp survivors of the second world war. His project
came to study and to measure people’s orientation towards health rather
than their orientation towards sickness and symptoms. From this point
of view, he developed a new way of thinking about health and sickness
i.e. “Salutogenic Thinking” (Antonovsky, 1979; Antonovsky, 1987) in
contrast to traditional medical pathology and pathogenic orientation and
thinking. Antonovsky further stressed that the dimension of health must
be understood within the dimension of age, and within the social and
cultural context (Antonovsky, 1985). In this perspective he introduces the
phenomenon he called “the sense of coherence”, and underlines in his
theories the vital importance of this dimension in a health and quality of
life perspective (Antonovsky and Sagy, 1986). According to Antonovsky,
human beings will throughout life always strive for coherence and
wholeness.
In his first book “Health, Stress and Coping”, Antonovsky (1979) presents
an operationalised definition of health called “Sense of Coherence”
measurable with the Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC). This was developed
in the purpose of measuring health within a perspective of salutogenic
thinking (Antonovsky, 1984). The Sense of Coherence is again broken
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