Question

Antonovsky argues that ______________ is a personal orientation that allows an individual to view the world with feelings of confidence

Answer 1

Answer:

sense of coherence

Explanation:

Antonovsky was a professor of medical sociology, he introduced the term of "Salutogenesis" which basically focuses on the factors that affect the well-being of a person rather than on the ones that cause diseases.

For years, the traditional medical model had focused in the dichotomy of "sickness-health" (meaning you're either healthy OR sick". However, Antonovsky considered that this relation was a continuous that included health, stress and how the individual copes with it.

One of Antonovsky central concepts was the "sense of coherence". He thought that it was not the factors themselves which determined whether stress would be harmful for you or not but rather it was one personal sense of coherence.

Sense of coherence refers to the personal global orientation that each person has and is a feeling of confidence that the stimuli from the outside world are predictable, one's own resources are sufficient to deal with these stimuli and that these demands are worthy of engagement.

Therefore, the sense of coherence is the personal orientation that allows an individual to view the world with feelings of confidence.