The question is, 'why do some people do better than others?' The senses of comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness which make up SOC are dynamic, so the ability to live well – to be resilient – is also dynamic.
Through the cognitive interviews with parents, in an informal way, we were able to get a sense of the comprehensibility and meaning of the various items developed from focus groups.
Fortunately, the three parameters of the sense of coherence (comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness) are significant predictors of styles of success over the long term.
Self-reported SOC was based on three questions that have been validated with satisfactory results and are suggested to capture the essence of the three dimensions of SOC: sense of manageability, comprehensibility, and meaningfulness (15).
Using a prospective, correlational design, 563 first year nursing students completed the three dimensions of sense of coherence scale – comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness, and five components of self-regulated learning strategy – elaboration, organisation, rehearsal, self-efficacy and task value.
The scale assesses the three components of the sense of coherence concept; comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness.
Emphasis was put on a sense of coherence, covering comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness.
The SOC is a questionnaire based on Antonovsky's salutogenic theory and was used to assess the sense of coherence, measured by comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness.
This is a theoretical formulation for how an individual can deal with stress, describing three components important for the sense of coherence: 1. Comprehensibility, 2. Manageability and 3. Meaningfulness.
A promising approach may be to strengthen the "sense of coherence" by taking aspects of comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness from the patients' social and personal perspective into account [ 17].
A sense of coherence, comprising the key concepts of comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness, is central to salutogenesis and came about as a complement to the otherwise often problem-focused health research.
