Wellness as Fairness

• DOI: 10.1007/s10464-011-9448-8
• Publication Date: 2011-06-03T18:50:13Z
• Authors: Isaac Prilleltensky
• Keywords: Health psychology

Abstract I argue that distinct conditions of justice lead to diverse wellness outcomes through a series psychosocial processes. Optimal justice, suboptimal vulnerable injustice, and persisting injustice thriving, coping, confronting, suffering, respectively. The processes mediate between optimal thriving include the promotion responsive conditions, prevention threats, individual pursuit, avoidance comparisons. mechanisms coping resilience, adaptation, compensation, downward Critical experiences, critical consciousness, action, righteous comparisons confrontation with system. Oppression, internalization, helplessness, upward suffering. These operate within across personal, interpersonal, organizational community contexts. Different types are hypothesized influence well‐being each context. Intrapersonal operates at personal level, whereas distributive, procedural, relational, developmental impact interpersonal well‐being. At relational informational Finally, retributive, cultural support wellness. Data from variety sources suggested connections