What are generalized resistance resources (GRRs) and what function do they perform in Antonovsky's Salutogenic Model?
What will be an ideal response?
Antonovsky considers stressors to be omnipresent. Thus, his model suggests that adaptation to our stress-filled environments involves finding inputs from resources that enable us to resist entropy or make order out of chaos (i.e., negative entropy resources). Such resources can be classified as our personal reserves (e.g., our sense of optimism), our social environment (e.g., our social relationships), and our physical environment (e.g., our physical resources like money and possessions). He called these inputs generalized resistance resources (GRRs), which serve to reduce the pressure on us to move toward the negative end of the pole, the entropic direction, when encountering stressors.
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