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Structure of the SOC-13 in Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Clients: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2015

Chen-Ping Lin ,
Chung-Yi Chiu ,
Connie Sung ,
Justine Lai ,
Fong Chan  and
Elizabeth da Silva Cardoso
Chen-Ping Lin
Affiliation:
University of Washington, United States of America.
Chung-Yi Chiu
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, United States of America.
Connie Sung
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America.
Justine Lai
Affiliation:
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, United States of America.
Fong Chan*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America. [email protected]
Elizabeth da Silva Cardoso
Affiliation:
City University of New York, United States of America.
*
*Address for correspondence: Fong Chan, Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 432 East Campus Mall, Room 414, Madison, WI 53706-1496, USA.
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Abstract

The objective of the study was to validate the factorial structure of the short form of the Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC-13) with a sample of substance abuse clients to facilitate health promotion research with this population in the future. Participants were 406 clients recruited from seven residential therapeutic community programs for the treatment of substance abuse. Four confirmatory factor models were tested: (1) a three-factor correlated model; (2) a two-factor correlated model; (3) a 13-item one-factor model; and (4) a 9-item one-factor model. The results indicated that the data did not fit the three-factor correlated model and the two-factor correlated model, whereas empirical data fits the 13-item one-factor and the 9-item one-factor models reasonably well, with the latter representing a significantly better fit than the former one. These results are consistent with previous studies and reflected a unidimensional factor in the sense of coherence, as opposed to the two or three-factor structure. The SOC-9 has considerable promise as a brief measure of SOC in substance abuse assessment and treatment settings.

Keywords

sense of coherencesubstance abuseconfirmatory factor analysisstages of changehealth promotion
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The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , 01 March 2009 , pp. 28 - 39
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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