Salutogenesis, SOC, teacher stress, men, women, coping with stress

The paper focuses on salutogenesis based on the concept by A. Antonovsky as a process enabling people to cope with stress; in this case specifically within the teaching profession at elementary schools with respect to possible differences between female and male teachers.The subject of this analysis are the relationsh?p between the subjective view of how they experience work-related stress and the subjective (assessment of one´s own health) and objective indicators of theit state of health (number of days absent from employment due to illness) with regard to the probable mediating influence of Sense of Coherence (SOC) among men and women.