Or behavioral dimension, defined as the degree to which one feels that there are resources at one’s disposal that can be used to meet the requirements of the stimuli one is bombarded by Antonovsky ( 1987, p. A prerequisite to being able to cope with a stressful situation is that one can, to some extent, understand it.
The ability to create structure out of chaos makes it easier for us to understand one’s context and one’s part in it, for example, one’s role in the family or the workplace. When you think about your life, you very often: (from ‘feel how good it is to be alive’ to ‘ask yourself why you exist at all’)ĭimension, refers to the extent to which one perceives internal and external stimuli as rationally understandable, and as information that is orderly, coherent, clear, structured rather than noise-that is, chaotic, disordered, random, unexpected, and unexplained (Antonovsky, 1987, p. Meaningfulness is measured with items like these:ĭoing the things you do every day is: (from ‘a source of deep pleasure and satisfaction’ to ‘a source of pain and boredom’) When you do something that gives you a good feeling: (from ‘it’s certain that you’ll go on feeling good’ to ‘it’s certain that something will happen to spoil the feeling’) When something unpleasant happened in the past your tendency was: (from ‘to eat yourself up about it’ to ‘to say “ok that’s that, I have to live with it” and go on’) The following items are examples that measure manageability: When you talk to people, do you have a feeling that they don’t understand you? (from ‘never have this feeling’ to ‘always have this feeling’)ĭo you have a feeling that you are in an unfamiliar situation and don’t know what to do? (from ‘very often’ to ‘very seldom or never’) This issue is taken up again later in this chapter.Įxamples of items measuring the comprehensibility dimension are as follows (Antonovsky, 1987, p. 11.1) since he theorized that it was the sense of coherence in its totality that influenced movement along the ease/dis-ease continuum Antonovsky intended that the sense of coherence scales be scored with a single total score and not component scores (Fig.
A shorter version of 13 questions (SOC-13) of the original form was developed by Antonovsky ( 1987), where the score ranges between 13 and 91 points. The questionnaire is a summed index with a total score ranging from 29 to 203 points for the original scale of 29 questions (SOC-29). The response alternatives are a semantic scale of 1 point to 7 points, where 1 and 7 indicate extreme feelings about questions (and statements) about how one’s life is experienced (e.g., the question “when you talk to people, do you have the feeling that they do not understand you?” is scored from 1 = never have this feeling to 7 = always have this feeling). The original form, the Orientation to Life Questionnaire, consists of 29 items, 11 items measuring comprehensibility, 10 items measuring manageability, and 8 items measuring meaningfulness. Antonovsky ( 1987) developed a questionnaire to measure the sense of coherence.
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