title: Sense of coherence and health. The construction of an amendment to Antonovsky's sense of coherence scale (SOC II).
abstract: 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 questions that we suggest should be incorporated in a new questionnaire and scale (SOC II) derived directly from Antonovsky's idea and the three key explanatory concepts of SOC: comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness. We hope that this new scale will demonstrate a stronger correlation between SOC and physical health.
authors: Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen K, Denmark. tf@ipm.hosp.dk
authors: Trine
authors: T
authors: Flensborg-Madsen
authors: Søren
authors: S
authors: Ventegodt
authors: Joav
authors: J
authors: Merrick
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006262:Health; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*