This study empirically validated Antonovsky 's suggestion that a Sense of Coherence is important in managing stress and remaining both physically and psychologically healthy. In both Anglo-American and Native American cultures, Sense of Coherence Measures were found to correlate negatively with meas
Validating Antonovsky's sense of Coherence scale
β Scribed by Raymond B. Flannery Jr.; J. Christopher Perry; Walter E. Penk; Georgina J. Flannery
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Volume
- 50
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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This study empirically validated Antonovsky's suggestion that differing cultural pathways exist in the development of a Sense of Coherence. Differences were found in the ways in which essentially identical levels of a Sense of Coherence were developed in Native Americans and Anglo-Americans. Native
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