An assessment of the (short-form) sense of coherence personality measure: Issues of validity and well-being

Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence Scale and 16pf Second-Order Factors

“…If the SOC anxiety /neuroticism correlations are viewed from the perspective of t he NA literatur e, it c ould be argued that the SOC scale is seriously contaminated with NA. This is the interpretation prefe rred by Korotkov (1993) and Hittn er (1994), both of whom used the SOC-1 3. Hittner found that after the effect of trait anxiet y had been partialled out, the SOC scale could not predict scores representing depression, anger, and daily hassles; he questioned "whether the SOC is a measure of resilience and well -being, or whether it merely assesses the absence o f neuroticism" (p. 8).…”

Antonovsky's sense of coherence scale and the relation with health: a systematic review

“…The SOC concept has been criticised from many points of view: to be psychometrically unclear, [85][86][87][88][89] a theory confounded with emotionality, 62 other concepts available to explain health, 90 a theory full of contradictions, 91 the results to be trivial and overrated, 92 only a few have considered the concept to be worth examining, 93 and lack of evidence of the stability over time. 90 We consider the above mentioned statements partially as wrong and reject them because the empirical evidence supports the theory.…”

Antonovsky's sense of coherence scale related to negative and positive affectivity

“…for MCE`quiet±talkative', and unfeeling±passionate'; for MCN`secure±insecure', and`self-satis®ed±self-pitying'. (Korotkov (1993) followed a similar procedure and used seven items from McCrae and Costa (1985) to measure`emotionality'.) Instead of the nine-point response scales of the original, seven-point semantic dierentials were used, with instructions from Osgood, Suci and Tannenbaum (1957).…”