THEORY ANALYSIS

Dorothy Johnson first recognized the behavioral system, detailing its properties and how it
operated. Subsequently, she expounded on the properties and behaviors of the subsystems,
illustrating how they worked as part of the system.
Clarity
Johnson provided a well-defined and straightforward set of rules and regulations for human
conduct. The ideas presented are explicit, consistent, and applicable to all ages and cultures.
Simplicity
Johnson's theory is relatively uncomplicated when it comes to the amount of concepts
involved. It states that an individual is made up of seven subsystems and is regulated by nursing
from the outside. Despite this simplicity, the theory can be complicated due to the numerous
interconnections among the behavioral systems, their components, and the forces acting upon
them.
Generality
Johnson’s theory is expansive when applied to ill individuals, but has not been utilized as
much in healthy individuals or groups. Johnson conceptualizes a person as a behavioral system
consisting of seven subsystems, which together form an interactive behavioral system. Initially,
Johnson did not explicitly discuss non-illness circumstances or preventive nursing. In later
works, she highlighted the role of nurses in preventive healthcare for individuals and society.
Johnson declared that Nursing must prioritize creating preventive nursing to fulfill its societal
responsibilities.
Accessibility
Achieving accessibility or empirical precision in research utilizing Johnson's model has been
evidenced to a moderate degree, through the identification of empirical indicators for the theory
that contain abstract concepts, and by better defining the subconcepts and the relationships
between and among them.
Johnson's use of terms such as balance, stability, equilibrium, adjustments, adaptations,
disturbances, disequilibrium, and behavioral disorders can be confusing, as they are often used
interchangeably. Clarifying the definitions of these subsystems would make the model more
accessible and precise.
Importance
Johnson’s model provides a framework for nursing practice, education, and research; it
produces fresh insights into nursing and draws a sharp distinction betdisciplinesween nursing and
other disciplines. By highlighting behavior rather than biology, the theory delineates Nursing
from Medicine, although some of the concepts are shared with the psychosocial professions.
Questions generated from this theory have been used to guide nursing research, which has
been evaluated and accepted as a valid foundation for creating nursing curricula. Practitioners
and patients have both found that the resulting nursing actions are effective and satisfactory. This
theory has a lot of potential to continue to be utilized in nursing to reach desired outcomes.