Perspectives on salutogenesis of scholars writing in Swedish

Abstract

This chapter describes the background and the development of scholarship on salutogenesis in Swedish. It starts from the time when Antonovsky visited the University of Lund and introduced the salutogenic model of health to the Swedish audience of health scientists. Research on the sense of coherence construct is extensive in English, so just describing articles and theses published in Swedish do not give a fair picture of the Swedish research. Therefore, this chapter begins with a summary of the total number of sense of coherence studies in the period 1983-2013 and thereafter shows some trends in research in Swedish, ending up in current research. The chapter does not claim to be a systematic literature review of Swedish research on salutogenesis and the core concept of the sense of coherence; instead, it intends to be a sketch of Swedish salutogenesis research, showing some steps in the development from the past to the current situation.