Sense of coherence (SOC) reflects a coping capacity of people to deal with everyday life stressors and consists of three elements: comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness. SOC is often considered to be a stable entity that is developed in young adulthood and stabilizes around the age of 30. Recent studies have questioned this stability of SOC and some studies report on interventions...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to explore the role of sense of coherence (SOC) in the relationship between household income and self-rated health among Canadian women. SOC is a global orientation that enables one to perceive events of the world as comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful. METHODS A secondary data analysis was conducted using the National Population Health Survey 19...

Aim To determine whether there is an association between depressive symptoms and parental stress among mothers and fathers during early parenthood in Sweden. Methods In this study, 401 mothers and 396 fathers (393 couples) were included; the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and the Sense of Coherence Scale were measured 3 months after childbirth, and the Swedish Parenthood Stress Questionna...

objectives: within the context of health-related quality of life studies, it was necessary to translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the sf-12 health survey version 2. the aim of this study was to investigate the factorial structure, convergent validity and reliability of this instrument in a healthy iranian sample, following translation and establishment of content and face vali...

BACKGROUND Samis are indigenous people in north Europe. In the territory called Sápmi (Lapland), reindeer herding is the traditional base for the Sami economy. The relation between living conditions and positive health of the Swedish Samis has been sparsely studied. As health is closely linked to sense of coherence (SOC), an understanding of the background factors to SOC may contribute knowledg...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of the associations between labour market position and sense of coherence (SOC) comes mainly from cross-sectional studies. We investigated whether change in employment status is associated with change in SOC and whether such an association varies when young (<30 years) and older employees are compared. METHODS Data were derived from two studies: a cohort of initially non-...

The aim of this section is to shortly describe the theoretical framework of salutogenesis with a special focus on the key concepts, the sense of coherence and the generalized and specific resistance resources. This chapter begins with reflection on the ontological and epistemological background of salutogenesis, which is not particularly described and explained to any significant extent in the ...

In two previous papers, we concluded that (1) the sense of coherence (SOC) scale developed by Aaron Antonovsky (1923-1994) is unable to prove the association between SOC and the physical health empirically and (2) the SOC scale is unlikely to be a fair materialization of Antonovsky's idea and, thus, unlikely to measure SOC correctly. In order to improve the scale, we developed some new question...

Exchange processes between people and their environment are assumed to be essential for health. Mussmann et al define health as follows: “Health is a transactionally produced condition of a dynamic balance between the individual, his/her autonomous potential of self-organisation as well as of self-restoration and his/her social and economic environment. This balance depends upon the availabilit...