Validation of Sense of Coherence (SOC) 13-item scale in Iranian sample

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 1451-1455

  Mahammadzadeh, Aliakbar ^a   Poursharifi, Hamid ^b   Alipour, Ahmad ^c  

^a Center for Psychological Services   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^c PAYAME NOOR UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antonovsky; Hardiness; Meaningfulness; Salutogenesis; Sense of coherence; SOC; Validity reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549288525     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.07.306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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