Salutogenesis and culture: Personal and community sense of coherence among adolescents belonging to three different cultural groups

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 533-541

  Braun Lewensohn, Orna ^a   Sagy, Shifra ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MINORITY GROUP; MOSLEM; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSE OF COHERENCE; STRESS;

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINORITY GROUPS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84856491761     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2011.637905     Document Type: Article

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