Antonovsky's sense of coherence scale: Cultural validation of SOC questionnaire and socio-demographic patterns in an Italian population

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-6

  Sardu, Claudia ^a   Mereu, Alessandra ^a   Sotgiu, Alessandra ^a   Andrissi, Laura ^a   Jacobson, Maria Katarina ^b   Contu, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cross cultural validation; Multivariate analysis; Sense of coherence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANTONOVSKY SENSE OF COHERENCE SCALE; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL STATUS; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

EID: 84859903048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17450179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1745017901208010001     Document Type: Article

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