Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC)

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Antonovsky, A. (1993). The structure and properties of the sense of coherence scale. Social science & medicine, 36(6), 725-733.
General information
Purpose The Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC) assesses how people view life and identifies how they use their resistance resources to maintain and develop their health.
Domain(s) Goal Pursuit
Life Satisfaction
Positive Affect
Sense of Meaning
Target population Adult
Number of items 29
Administration format self-report
Additional formats
Alternate forms

Information on the 13-item short form can be found here: https://www.stars-society.org/copy-of-soc-scales-3
https://gustolifegroup.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/soc-questionnarie.pdf

Availability in other languages Croatian, Czech, English, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh.
Fee for use
Free
Related information on use of the measure

Need to become a membership of STARS: Society for Theory and Research on Salutogenesis to access 29-item measure: https://www.stars-society.org/copy-of-soc-scales-2

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