Sense of coherence and emotional health in adolescents

Moksnes, Unni Karin; Lillefjell, Monica

doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.07.013

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“…We considered the investigation of SOC necessary because according to the literature, SOC is an important power source with a personal character that helps to cope with the stressful events of everyday life (mokSnES et al 2012, ErikSSon & lindSTröm 2005.…”

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Sport, Sense of Coherence and Self-Esteem among 16 and 17-Year-Olds

Jeges¹

2015

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The study investigates the health-preserving role of sports among 16 and 17-year-olds in the context of sense of coherence (SOC) and self-esteem (SES); revealing their interdependencies, it intends to contribute to discovering the protective factors of health. In Hungary's Southern Transdanubian region, we implemented a health-sociological questionnaire survey on a 1091-person sample representing school types, during which we thoroughly researched young peoples' sporting and physical training habits, measuring their sense of coherence with the 13-item SOC scale and their self-esteem with Rosenberg's 10-item scale. The frequency and level of physical training in both sexes (controlled by parents' education and work, place of residence, and school type) indicated a strong positive correlation with SOC and SES, with meaningfulness as the most significantly connected dimension of SOC. The scale values were significantly higher with boys than with girls. The survey results also mark the significance of internal motivations for sports.Keywords: adolescence, sport, coherence, self-esteem, sex Sport -Kohärenzgefühl -Selbstwertgefühl der 16 und 17 Jahre alten Jugendlichen: Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die gesundheitsfördernde Rolle des Sports unter 16-17 jähri-gen Jugendlichen im Kontext von Kohärenzgefühl (SOC) und Selbstwertgefühl (SES). Ziel der Untersuchung ist -durch Erschließung gegenseitiger Abhängigkeiten -, zur Erforschung der gesundheitsfördernden Faktoren beizutragen. In der Region Südtransdanubien wurde eine gesundheitssoziologische Erhebung in einem Sample von 1091 Personen durchgeführt, in der Jugendliche besonders nach ihren Gewohnheiten beim Sport und ihren physischen Aktivitäten befragt wurden, desweiteren wurden dabei ihr Kohärenzgefühl mit der SOC-Skala (13 Items) und ihr Selbstwertgefühl mit der Selbstwert-Skala von Rosenberg (10 Items) erfasst. Die Häu-figkeit der und das Maß an physischer Aktivität korrelieren bei beiden Geschlechtern mit SOC und SES stark positiv, wobei die Aspekte Ausbildung, Beruf der Eltern und Schultyp kontrolliert wurden. Die stärkste Korrelation besteht mit der "Sinnhaftigkeitsdimension" von SOC. Die Werte, die mit diesen Skalen gemessen wurden, waren bei Jungen signifikant höher als bei

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Sport, Sense of Coherence and Self-Esteem among 16 and 17-Year-Olds

Jeges¹

2015

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“…En algunos estudios anteriores se han encontrado pequeñas diferencias con respecto al sexo, en las que parece que los hombres muestran un nivel más elevado de sentido de coherencia que las mujeres, explicando estos resultados debido a que las mujeres se adaptan peor a situaciones de estrés como pueden ser los cambios en el desarrollo, los compañeros y las relaciones familiares, lo que puede conducir a una inadecuación psicológica (Mosknes, Espnes y Lillefjell, 2012;Eriksson y Lindström, 2005). Otros autores (von Bothmer y Fridlund, 2003;Volanen, Suominen, Lahelma, Koskenvuo y Silventoinen, 2007) no encontraron tales diferencias.…”

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Relación entre el sentido de coherencia y el cansancio emocional en estudiantes universitarios. / Relationship between sense of coherence and emotional exhaustion in university students.

Fernández-Martínez

liébana-Presa

Astorga

2017

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RESUMENEl sentido de coherencia conduce a evaluar las circunstancias de la vida como significativas, predecibles y manejables por lo que está considerando como una fuente que reduce el estrés y promociona la vida saludable. Por otro lado, las múltiples demandas que se plantean a los estudiantes en su periodo universitario pueden desencadenar estrés. Con este estudio hemos querido averiguar si el sentido de coherencia está relacionado con el cansancio emocional. Los participantes fueron 960 estudiantes universitarios (muestreo accidental), siendo el 81% mujeres. Respondieron a dos cuestionarios de autoinforme (el Cuestionario de Sentido de Coherencia SOC-13 y la Escala de Cansancio Emocional ECE). Se realizaron análisis de correlación y la prueba t de Student para averiguar las diferencias entre grupos. Las mujeres puntúan más alto que los hombres en cansancio emocional y los alumnos de tercero presentan mayores niveles de sentido de coherencia que los de primer curso. Los estudiantes con niveles altos de sentido de coherencia poseen niveles bajos de cansancio emocional, por lo que sería conveniente diseñar y poner en marcha estrategias para aumentar el sentido de coherencia disminuyendo así el cansancio emocional.ABSTRACTThe sense of coherence helps us view life events as significant, predictable, and manageable and it is thus thought to reduce stress and promote health. In contrast, the multiple demands faced by university students can trigger stress. In this study, we aimed to determine if the sense of coherence was related to emotional exhaustion. Participants were 960 university students (convenience sampling), 81% were women. They completed two self-report questionnaires: the SOC-13 Sense of Coherence Questionnaire and the Emotional Exhaustion Scale. We did correlation analyses and the Student’s t test to detect differences between groups. Women scored higher than men in emotional exhaustion. The third year students achieved higher scores in sense of coherence than first year students. Students with high scores in sense of coherence showed low levels of emotional exhaustion. These results indicate that it would be useful to design and implement strategies that help increase the sense of coherence and therefore reduce emotional exhaustion in university students.

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“…Nonetheless, current salutogenic research in young populations is limited. Several studies have focused on quantitatively assessing the correlations between SOC and various health behaviours (Humphrey & McDowell, 2013) and health outcomes such as emotional health (Moksnes, Espnes, & Lillefjell, 2012) and mental health (Lekkou, Åström, & Hägglöf, 2007). In addition, researchers have begun to study how SOC develops in childhood and early adulthood (García-Moya, Moreno, & Jiménez-Iglesias, 2013;Marsh, Clinkinbeard, Thomas, & Evans, 2007).…”

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The role of community sports coaches in creating optimal social conditions for life skill development and transferability – a salutogenic perspective

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Koelen

2016

Sport, Education and Society

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Sport is widely recognised as having the potential to enhance the personal development of socially vulnerable youth, yet there is very limited knowledge on how community sports coaches can create optimal social conditions for life skill development and transferability. We adopt a salutogenic approach in order to study whether and how community sports coaches create these optimal social conditions. Based on the salutogenic framework, a thematic analysis was conducted of 15 indepth interviews with community sports coaches providing sports lessons to socially vulnerable youth. As part of the interviews, the sports coaches were presented with several training scenarios and asked how they would respond in specific training situations. The results showed that the sports coaches aimed to create meaningful sporting experiences for youths. These meaningful sporting experiences were considered a precondition for keeping youths engaged in the sporting activities, as well as a precondition for life skill development. The sports coaches specifically focused on creating little moments of success and on making sure that the youths felt they belonged to a group. In order to ensure that the youths could experience moments of success, specific coaching strategies were implemented to increase the youths' comprehensibility and manageability in specific sport situations. According to the sports coaches, experiencing little moments of success could contribute to an increase in socially vulnerable youths' understanding of the everyday challenges that they face, as well as contribute to their ability to deal with these challenges. Creating meaningful sporting experiences may help youths 'to learn to cope' -a skill that could be beneficial over their lifespan and in different societal domains. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Sense of coherence and emotional health in adolescents

Cited by 72 publications

References 40 publications

Sport, Sense of Coherence and Self-Esteem among 16 and 17-Year-Olds

Sport, Sense of Coherence and Self-Esteem among 16 and 17-Year-Olds

Relación entre el sentido de coherencia y el cansancio emocional en estudiantes universitarios. / Relationship between sense of coherence and emotional exhaustion in university students.

The role of community sports coaches in creating optimal social conditions for life skill development and transferability – a salutogenic perspective

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