caa a22 4500 397516827 CHVBK 20180308164621.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202s1995 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/eurpub/5.1.56 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/eurpub/5.1.56 A simplified way of measuring sense of coherence [Elektronische Daten] Experiences from a population survey in Sweden [O. LUNDBERG, M. NYSTRÖM PECK] Antonovsky's concept sense of coherence (SOC) has gained much attention during the last few years as an important factor in the understanding of social factors behind health and illness. The questionnaire developed to measure SOC may, however, for practical reasons be difficult to use. In a recently conducted population survey in Sweden, we were faced with the problem of incorporating the ideas behind SOC without being able to include the 29-item instrument. Instead, 3 questions were constructed in order to capture each of the 3 dimensions included in SOC, namely manageability, meaningfulness and comprehensibillity. In this research note we present our simplified version of SOC and the properties of the measure obtained. We conclude that the simplified measure we have suggested might be a useful substitute for the original scale, especially In cases where information on SOC would otherwise have been totally omitted. © European Journal of Public Health ORIGINAL ARTICLES ON OTHER TOPICS nationallicence sense of coherence nationallicence reliability nationallicence validity nationallicence salutogenic model nationallicence LUNDBERG O. Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm aut PECK M. NYSTRÖM Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm aut The European Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 5/1(1995), 56-59 1101-1262 5:1<56 1995 5 eurpub https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/5.1.56 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/5.1.56 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- LUNDBERG O. Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- PECK M. NYSTRÖM Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The European Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 5/1(1995), 56-59 1101-1262 5:1<56 1995 5 eurpub Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford