Sense of coherence and smoking in a sample of abused women.
The Antonovsky thesis (1987) of the relationship between sense of coherence and smoking, a health-related behavior, was investigated in a group of 83 raped and battered women. Analysis indicated that the simple model of "sense of coherence-health-related behavior' relationship (the higher the sense of coherence or its components the healthier behaviors, i.e., lower rates of smoking) cannot be accepted for this sample.
Luszczynska
Aleksandra
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Warsaw University, Faculty of Psychology, Poland. alc@sci.psych.uw.edu.pl
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires