Sense of Coherence and Physical Health. Testing Antonovsky’s Theory
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Sense of coherence and physical health. Testing Antonovsky's theory.
In a previous paper, we argued that the original 29-item sense of coherence (SOC) scale developed by Aaron Antonovsky (1923-1994) was insufficient according to its reflection of SOC. The purpose of this study was to create a new version of the original 29-item SOC scale in order to test his hypothesis of a causal link between SOC and physical health. This shorter version was built on the exact ...
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عنوان ژورنال: TSW Holistic Health & Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1749-494X
DOI: 10.1100/tswhhm.2006.232