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Sagy, Shifra; Antonovsky, Aaron – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1992
Examined marital dyad as family social system in which individual experiences stressors and coping. Investigated Antonovsky's salutogenic model and its core concept, sense of coherence (SOC). Data from 286 married Israeli retirees suggest, when one spouse has high SOC and other has low SOC, salutogenic versions of family SOC seems to be better…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Family Environment, Foreign Countries