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¹Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Rhetoric House, Co. Kildare, Maynooth, W23 HW31, Ireland.

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Summary

This study introduces the salutogenic trace concept to understand how swimming in blue spaces promotes health and wellbeing. It explores how a strong sense of coherence (SOC) in Irish swimmers enhances health across their lifecourse.

Keywords:

Blue space Flow Health-promotion Salutogenesis Swimming Trace

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Area of Science:

Geographies of Health and Wellbeing
Environmental Psychology
Public Health

Background:

Ongoing interest in health-enabling spaces and places through occupation and practice.
Blue space practice, specifically swimming, is explored as a context for health and wellbeing.
The concept of salutogenesis, focusing on a sense of coherence (SOC), underpins health promotion.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop the concept of the salutogenic trace for understanding health and wellbeing in place.
To examine how the three dimensions of SOC (comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness) are enacted in blue space practices.
To identify health-enabling/promoting traces in the lives of Irish swimmers across different water types.

Main Methods:

Qualitative study focusing on Irish swimmers in river, lake, and sea environments.
Examination of the three core dimensions of sense of coherence (SOC) from the swimmers' perspectives.
Analysis of how swimming practices contribute to health and wellbeing through the concept of trace.

Main Results:

The concept of salutogenic trace augments place and space, illustrating relational geographies.
Each dimension of SOC was identified with specific components enabling swimmer health and wellbeing.
Health-enabling/promoting traces were identified across swimmers' lives, enacted and reproduced in blue space.

Conclusions:

The salutogenic trace offers a novel framework for understanding health and wellbeing in relation to specific practices and environments.
The study highlights the importance of comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness in fostering health through blue space engagement.
Trace, including its components like flows, blockages, and accretion, provides insights into the life-course dimensions of salutogenesis.