Salutogenesis and culture: Personal and community sense of coherence among adolescents belonging to three different cultural groups

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Table I. Means and SD among the groups on the study's variables.

	Jews^a N ≈ 779		Muslims^b N ≈ 330		Druze^c N ≈ 500
Variables	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	F
Sense of Coherence (1–7)	4.54	0.82	4.10	0.90	4.42	0.88	21.99*^ab,ac,bc
Sense of Community Coherence (1–7)	4.44	0.95	4.01	0.92	4.58	0.93	28.30*^ab,ac,bc
State Anxiety (1–4)	2.31	0.62	2.45	0.56	2.25	0.56	7.54*^ab,bc
State Anger (1–4)	1.72	0.71	1.98	0.72	1.97	0.72	18.97*^ab,ac
Psychological Distress (1–4)	1.98	0.66	2.27	0.67	2.14	0.64	16.34*^ab,ac,bc

*p<0.001.

Table II. Correlation matrix of study variables.

	1	2	3	4	5
Personal SOC	1	0.30*	−0.27*	−0.32*	−0.40*
Community SOC		1	−0.11*	−0.18*	−0.16*
State Anxiety			1	0.58*	0.29*
State Anger				1	0.31*
Psychological Distress					1

*p<0.001; N » 1609.

Hierarchal regression for state anxiety, state anger and SPD.

	State Anxiety					State Anger					Psychological Distress (SPD)
	R^2	B	β	SE	t	R^2	B	β	SE	t	R^2	B	b	SE	t
Personal SOC	0.07	−0.18	−0.27	0.02	−11.00**	0.10	−0.26	−0.32	0.02	−13.37**	0.16	−0.30	−0.40	0.02	−17.10**
Community SOC	0.00	−0.02	−0.03	0.02	−1.37	0.01	−0.07	−0.09	0.02	−3.71**	0.01	−0.04	−0.05	0.02	−2.19*
Personal SOC X cultural group	0.00	−0.01	−0.02	0.02	−0.28	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	−0.01	0.01	0.04	0.12	0.02	2.19*
Community SOC X cultural group	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	−0.06	0.00	0.00	−0.01	0.02	−0.17	0.00	−0.03	−0.08	0.02	−1.34

*p<0.05;

**p<0.001; N ≈ 1609.

Table IV. Hierarchal regression for SPD in three cultural groups.

	Jews					Muslims					Druze
	R^2	B	β	SE	t	R^2	B	β	SE	t	R^2	B	b	SE	t
Personal SOC	0.16	−0.33	−0.41	0.03	−12.19***	0.12	−0.26	−0.35	0.04	−6.67***	0.13	−0.26	−0.36	0.03	−8.45***
Community SOC	0.00	−0.02	−0.03	0.02	−0.86	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.04	0.23	0.02	−0.09	−0.13	0.03	−2.91**

**p<0.01; ***p<0.001.