Psychometric properties of family sense of coherence scale among German university students and measurement invariance a
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Psychometric properties of family sense of coherence scale among German university students and measurement invariance across genders Senem Ezgi Vatandaşlar 1
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Ayşe Rezan Çeçen-Eroğul 1
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Gernot Aich 2
Accepted: 11 November 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Family sense of coherence consists of a mechanism shared by members of a family to deal with stressors. It is related to the perceived comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness of an individual’s family life. The study aimed to adapt Family Sense of Coherence Scale to German culture and examine its psychometric properties in a sample of German university students. After a translation-back translation procedure of adaptation, the scale was examined in terms of internal consistency, composite reliability, construct validity, convergent validity, and gender invariance with data from 476 university students. Findings revealed that the scale showed high reliability with the present data. Besides, satisfactory fit to the original unidimensional model was obtained as well as invariance of the scores across male and female students. Finally, the scale correlated significantly with all criterion scales in the expected directions. As a result, the German form of Family Sense of Coherence Scale was concluded to be valid and reliable in the present sample of German university students. Keywords Psychometrics . Salutogenesis . Scale adaptation . University students
Introduction Being a family involves, among other things, sharing stress and difficulties. Families have a joint worldview, their own strategies to deal with stressful situations, a shared pool of resources to employ when faced with difficulties, namely the family sense This paper is an excerpt from the first author’s ongoing PhD thesis partially financed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) under the supervision of the second author, and co-advised by the third author. Its preliminary findings have been presented as an oral presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research in Social Sciences and Humanities in Munich, Germany in December 2019. * Senem Ezgi Vatandaşlar [email protected] Ayşe Rezan Çeçen-Eroğul [email protected] Gernot Aich [email protected] 1
Guidance and Psychological Counseling, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Turkey
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Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Intervention, University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
of coherence (FSOC; Sagy 1998). To understand the FSOC, individual sense of coherence (SOC) should first be explained. The concept of SOC was coined by Antonovsky (1987), who noticed that some people took stressful situations with much less damage than others. According to Antonovsky, some people are more resistant to stress and trauma because they are equipped with certain buffering factors, resources that help them overcome stressful situations (Eriksson 2017). These resources contribute to a general view of life, an
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