The Sense of Coherence and Its Measurement

Eriksson, Monica; Mittelmark, Maurice B.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04600-6_12

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“…A positive but weak significant correlation between SOC and age was found. Previous research has shown that SOC increases with age during the entire life cycle (Drageset, Espehaug, Rahm Hallberg, & Natvig, ; Eriksson & Mittelmark, ; Wiesmann & Hannich, ). A significant correlation was also found between the manageability dimension of SOC and age.…”

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The level of sense of coherence among Swedish nursing staff

Eriksson

Kerekes

Brink

et al. 2019

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aim To explore the level of sense of coherence among Swedish nursing staff. Design: An explorative quantitative study design was adopted using a short form for measuring sense of coherence. Methods Data were collected in January 2018 from nurses working in full‐time positions at two hospitals in Western Sweden. A total of 93 nurses completed the 13 item questionnaire measuring sense of coherence. Descriptive statistics were applied to obtain means and standard deviations. Spearman's rank correlation was used to describe strength of association between sense of coherence and socio‐demographic categories. Between‐group differences were defined using the nonparametric tests of Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal–Wallis test. Results The internal consistency of the SOC‐13 was low. An inter‐item‐correlation test indicated that two items decreased the internal consistency of the scale. The level of the three dimensions of sense of coherence varied; manageability was weakest and decreased the total sense of coherence. The meaningfulness dimension was as strongest. Conclusion On a national level, nurses reported weaker sense of coherence (SOC) than the general population, but stronger in an international comparison of nurses. They found their work difficult to manage, but meaningful. Impact On a national level, the nurses reported weaker SOC than the general population, but stronger in an international comparison of nurses. Findings from this study will have an impact on how nurses can manage work related stress in terms of sense of coherence. There will also be an impact on nurses' well‐being, which in a long run benefits patients.

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“…The SOC‐13 scale has previously shown acceptable psychometric characteristics (Eriksson & Lindström, ; Eriksson & Mittelmark, ). In previous studies, its internal reliability varied between 0.70–0.92.…”

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The level of sense of coherence among Swedish nursing staff

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Kerekes

Brink

et al. 2019

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…In this study, the Cronbach's alpha of the scale is 0.89. The SoC questionnaire was used to measure a nurse's ability to cope with stress. It was originally developed by Antonovsky in 1987 (Eriksson & Mittelmark ) and consists of 13 items on a 7‐point Likert scale. One example question is ‘Do you feel that you don't really care about what goes on around you?’.…”

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Investigating nurses’ quality of life and work‐life balance statuses in Singapore

Kowitlawkul

Yap

Makabe

et al. 2018

International Nursing Review

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Even though nurses who spent more time at work were still satisfied with their job, they might need to be aware of their physical health and work environment. Nursing policy related to nurses' physical health and environment should be established. Health promotion programmes such as physical exercise and mindfulness interventions should be conducted to promote nurses' well-being and healthy workplace environments to enhance nurses' quality of life.

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“…Within the salutogenic perspective, SOC is discussed as a central resistance resource that "reflects a person's view of life and capacity to respond to stressful situations" (Eriksson, 2017, p. 95). SOC comprises three subdimensions (Eriksson & Mittelmark, 2017): comprehensibility, the extent to which the individual can make sense of adversity and perceives internal and external events as rationally understandable and coherent; manageability, referring to the perception that resources are available to successfully meet the challenges and demands of life; and meaningfulness, the perception that life has emotional meaning and the feeling that at least some of the challenges and adversities the individual is facing are worthy of engagement and commitment. SOC has been explicitly addressed as a component or indicator of resilience (Kimhi & Eshel, 2009;Niitsu et al, 2017;Pangallo et al, 2015) and linked to positive adaptation in the context of numerous adversities, such as chronic illness (e.g., Keil, Vaske, Kenn, Rief, & Stenzel, 2017), war (Kimhi & Eshel, 2009), or posttraumatic stress disorder (e.g., Dudek & Koniarek, 2000).…”

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Media Entertainment as a Self-Regulatory Resource: The Recovery and Resilience in Entertaining Media Use (R²EM) Model

Reinecke¹,

Rieger²

2020

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In recent years, the perspective of media use and its contribution to positive outcomes for its users has been expanded towards the media’s potential to facilitate recovery from stress and strain and to support the replenishment of physical and psychological resources. The accumulation of empirical findings in this area calls for a systematization and theoretical integration. The present chapter therefore reviews latest developments in recovery theory and systematically summarizes previous research on the effects of recreational media use. It then proceeds in presenting a new model, the Recovery and Resilience in Entertaining Media use Model (R²EM-Model), linking entertainment use to the short-term experience of recovery and to the contribution to long-term development of resilience-enhancing factors. The chapter concludes with a discussion of open questions and future challenges in this field of research.

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The Sense of Coherence and Its Measurement

Cited by 165 publications

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The level of sense of coherence among Swedish nursing staff

The level of sense of coherence among Swedish nursing staff

Investigating nurses’ quality of life and work‐life balance statuses in Singapore

Media Entertainment as a Self-Regulatory Resource: The Recovery and Resilience in Entertaining Media Use (R²EM) Model

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