title: Life control and health.
abstract: This paper describes the life control and its development, concentrating on relationship between life control and health. The main goal is to review the life control and health among Northern Finnish women and men. Life control and its connections with health and life situation make up the theoretical basis of the work. The definition of life control is based on Antonovsky's theory of a sense of coherence. The concept of life control here includes the following subconcepts: comprehensibility (how understandable are the internal and external environments), manageability (ability to influence one's life course at work and in one's whole life), meaningfulness (one's experiences of the meaning of the present or future events) and life satisfaction and human relationships. Future studies need to explain factors affecting the abilities of individuals to control their lives and reach sensible decisions regarding their health and lives overall. New ways of strengthening life control among those who have become marginalized in relation to society need to be identified. A model of factors relating to life control and relationships between such factors could be constructed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Science, University of Kuopio, Finland. Anna-Maija.Pietila@uku.fi
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Pietilä
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004522:Educational Status; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D015438:Health Behavior; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D011788:Quality of Life