The stability of sense of coherence: comparing two age groups in a 5-year follow-up study

Feldt, Taru; Leskinen, Esko; Kinnunen, Ulla; Ruoppila, I.

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(02)00325-2

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“…Our first research goal was to examine whether full measurement equivalence (i.e., configural, metric, and scalar equivalence; Vandenberg & Lance, 2000) across gender and age could be established. Although configural and metric invariance of SOC-13 have been established previously in other regions of the world (e.g., Feldt, Leskinen, Kinnunen, & Ruoppila, 2003;Feldt, Lintula, Suominen, Kosenvuo, Vahtera, & Kivimäki, 2007), to the best of our knowledge, scalar invariance across gender and age remains to be established, irrespective of country of origin. Establishing scalar invariance allows for reliably interpreting meanlevel differences among groups.…”

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confidence: 67%

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The 13-Item Sense of Coherence Scale in Dutch-Speaking Adolescents and Young Adults: Structural Validity, Age Trends, and Chronic Disease

Luyckx¹,

Goossens²,

Apers³

et al. 2012

PSYCHOL BELG

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The present study focused on the structural validity of the Dutch 13-item sense of coherence (SOC) scale, examined age trends in SOC in adolescence and young adulthood, and investigated the potential impact of chronic disease on SOC. Eight samples of Belgian high school students, college students, and young adult employees were used (total N = 2,781); 380 of them aged 14-18 years were diagnosed with congenital heart disease. The SOC-13 scale proved to be structurally valid, as configural, metric, and scalar invariance was established. In line with salutogenic theory, SOC was found to increase with age through the teens and twenties. Relatedly, whereas high school and college students did not differ on mean SOC scores, employed young adults scored significantly higher. Having congenital heart disease was associated with higher levels of SOC in 14-18 year olds: they displayed similarly high scores on SOC as healthy individuals in their late twenties.In contrast to the pathogenic paradigm focusing on the origins of disease, the salutogenic paradigm focuses on the origins of health and captures mechanisms through which individuals manage stress and stay healthy (Antonovsky, 1979). Sense of coherence (SOC), a key salutogenic construct, is defined as "a global orientation that expresses the extent to which one has a pervasive, enduring though dynamic feeling of confidence that (1) the stimuli deriving from one's internal and external environments in the course of

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“…and manageability item 6 (Has it happened that people you counted on disappointed you?). Hence, in line with previous research (e.g., Feldt et al, 2003), we discarded these two items. Using this reduced set of 11 items, CFA indicated that the first-order one-factor model had a poor fit to the data.…”

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confidence: 98%

The 13-Item Sense of Coherence Scale in Dutch-Speaking Adolescents and Young Adults: Structural Validity, Age Trends, and Chronic Disease

Luyckx¹,

Goossens²,

Apers³

et al. 2012

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“…The second dimension measured manageability with responses ranging from 1 (Never happened) to 7 (Always happened). The third dimension of the scale measured meaningfulness and responses ranging from: 1 (very seldom or never) to 7 (Very often) (Feldt et al, 2003 (Kinman, 2008). According to Eriksson and Lindström (2005), the mean and standard deviation of the SOC-13 version of the OLQ reported in 127 studies were from 35.39 (SD 0.10) to 77.60 (SD 13.80) respectively.…”

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“…SOC as a concept was proposed by Antonovsky (1979Antonovsky ( , 1987a SOC is a universal inclination of an individual to appraise the world through three dimensions namely: 1) meaningfulness (an interpretation of stressors as meaningful demands that deserve to be handled), 2) manageability (perception that the person has sufficient resources to manage the environment in which one finds him/herself) and 3) comprehensibility (a case of perceiving an environment as being explainable, organized and predictable) (Feldt et al, 2003;Kivimäki et al, 2002). Scholars agree that the three components of SOC are greatly interconnected (Antonovsky, 1987;Bishop, 1993 Feldt et al (2003), an individual who ranks highly in all of the three dimensions of SOC, will be said to have strong SOC and enjoy wellness as well as good health.…”

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Influence of sense of coherence on work-life balance at the South African public service

Ethel

Fields

Sulaiman

2016

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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The inability of workers to achieve balance between work and family responsibilities has led to heightened incidence of illnesses associated with stress. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the role of Sense of Coherence (SOC) on the achievement of work life balance by focusing on individual managers at a municipality in the South African public service. These individual managers often struggle with work-life balance (WLB) challenges like HIV/AIDS, relational tension, single parenthood, child and elder care, alcohol and substance abuse, debt and financial issues, absence of job autonomy, function vagueness/role conflict and job stress. A sequential transformative mixed methods research design is adopted. Data were collected using self-report questionnaire administered to 364 individual managers; additional eleven members of top management were interviewed. Quantitative data gathered are analyzed using the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 to test the reliability and validity of the instrument as well as the bivariate association between the variables. NVIVO is used in organizing qualitative data for ease of content analysis. The findings indicate that SOC should be considered when designing strategies to address employee work-life needs. Furthermore, it confirmed that the presence of strong SOC does not lead to achievement of WLB.

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“…All three models (M1-M3) are data-equivalent and include the same number of estimated parameters (e.g. Feldt, Leskinen, Kinnunen, & Ruoppila, 2003;Salmela-Aro et al, 2011). All theoretical models are presented in Figure 1.…”

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Validity and Reliability of the Socio-Contextual Teacher Burnout Inventory (STBI)

Pietarinen¹,

Pyhältö²,

Soini³

et al. 2013

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Recent research on teacher burnout has advanced our understanding of its dimensions and contributing factors. However, the complexity and dynamics of the social working environments in schools has often been neglected in teacher burnout studies, and hence a valid and reliable context-sensitive instrument for studying teacher burnout in terms of social interaction in schools is needed. This study examined the development of the Socio-Contextual Teacher Burnout Inventory (STBI), its validity as well as reliability, among Finnish teachers (n = 2310). The validity and reliability of the items composing the STBI were determined based on the confirmatory factor analysis. The results showed that the correlated three-factor solution and second-order-factor solution fitted the data. More specifically, teacher exhaustion, cynicism towards the teacher community and inadequacy in the pupil-teacher relationship were found to be closely related but separate constructs. The results also supported the main hypothesis that teacher burnout can be examined in terms of interpersonal problems in an individual's transactions with others in the workplace. Therefore the sources of teacher burnout may vary not only between schools but also between the social working contexts within a single school. The instrument introduced in this study is a potentially useful tool for exploring interpersonal teacher burnout.

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The stability of sense of coherence: comparing two age groups in a 5-year follow-up study

Cited by 96 publications

References 26 publications

The 13-Item Sense of Coherence Scale in Dutch-Speaking Adolescents and Young Adults: Structural Validity, Age Trends, and Chronic Disease

The 13-Item Sense of Coherence Scale in Dutch-Speaking Adolescents and Young Adults: Structural Validity, Age Trends, and Chronic Disease

Influence of sense of coherence on work-life balance at the South African public service

Validity and Reliability of the Socio-Contextual Teacher Burnout Inventory (STBI)

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