Family Sense of Coherence and Family Adaptation

Resilience in Families in Which a Parent has Died

“…The FSOC-scale is comprised of the subscales 'comprehensibility', 'manageability', and 'meaningfulness'. Underlying each item is the level to which the respondent interprets the world as comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful (Antonovsky & Sourani, 1988). The scale consists of eight comprehensibility, nine manageability, and nine meaningfulness items.…”

“…To measure the level of family coherence in terms of the internal and the external environment, the Family Sense Of Coherence (FSOC) (Antonovsky & Sourani, 1988) scale was used. This scale is comprised of 26 semantically-differential items (7-point Likert-scale).…”

“…How families make sense of a crisis such as the loss of a family member, and endow it with meaning, is most crucial for familial resilience (Antonovsky & Sourani, 1988). A family's sense of loss can be influenced by its sense of coherence.…”

“…Antonovsky developed the Salutogenic paradigm, which proposes that stressors are part of human existence, and it is as important to investigate successful coping (origins of health) as it is to investigate the origins of pathology (Antonovsky & Sourani, 1988). Rather than looking at factors associated with deficits, salutogenesis is concerned with discovering characteristics that contribute to healthy functioning in families (Hawley & DeHaan, 1996).…”

“…A high sense of family coherence can promote stability and health, helping families to reach higher levels of reorganisation and adjustment after the crisis (Antonovsky & Sourani, 1988).…”