The factor structure of Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence Scale in Swedish clinical and nonclinical samples

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 701-711

  Sandell, Rolf ^a   Blomberg, Johan ^b   Lazar, Anna ^b  

^a Institute of Psychotherapy   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Sense of coherence; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032058805     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00225-0     Document Type: Article

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