A 3 year follow-up study of health care students’ sense of coherence and related smoking, drinking and physical exercise factors

Determinants of Sense of Coherence in Male Japanese Workers: a Cross-Sectional Study

“…With regard to cohabiting with a spouse, our findings agree with those of a previous study, which showed that people sharing households with one or more persons report more favorable SOC scores than do those living alone 8) . The lack of significant association of SOC with smoking is consistent with results from a Finnish student study 14) , but inconsistent with a Norfolk (UK) study that showed an inverse relationship between these variables 15) . Association between alcohol drinking and SOC was also observed in the Norfolk study 15) , whereas SOC had no relation to drinking among students in a Finnish study 14) .…”

“…The lack of significant association of SOC with smoking is consistent with results from a Finnish student study 14) , but inconsistent with a Norfolk (UK) study that showed an inverse relationship between these variables 15) . Association between alcohol drinking and SOC was also observed in the Norfolk study 15) , whereas SOC had no relation to drinking among students in a Finnish study 14) . The lack of significant association between exercise habits and SOC is also inconsistent with previous studies 14) 15) that have shown positive associations between physical activity and SOC.…”

Correlates of Achieving the Guidelines of Four Forms of Physical Activity, and the Relationship between Guidelines Achievement and Academic Performance: Undergraduate Students in Finland

“…Still other research in Finland (26) tracked PA from early childhood through youth into adulthood, but did not go beyond the age of 18 years thus falling short of the age of most university populations. Very little research on aspects of university students' PA has been undertaken in Finland and the very few studies that undertook such a task frequently used small samples (27). This is despite that PA and physical inactivity are well-known protective and risk factors respectively for many chronic conditions; and, in school settings, movement can promote children's cognitive development (28), triggering the need to evaluate the fitness-academic performance connections (29).…”

The Application of Salutogenesis in Universities

“…There are a number of research papers that explore salutogenesis, in particular individual-level sense of coherence, and its relationship to stress and mental well-being in university staff (Bezuidenhout & Cilliers, 2011;Kinman, 2008)-and other that focus on students' sense of coherence and its relationship to both physical and/or mental health (Anderson Darling, McWey, Howard, & Olmstead, 2007;Kuuppelomäki & Utriainen, 2003;von Bothmer & Fridlund, 2003). However, while these provide insights into the experiences of staff and students at universities, they are not directly related to the concept of the 'Healthy University' and neither engage with nor reflect an understanding of ecological whole system thinking.…”