TY - GEN AU - Virues-Ortega, Javier AU - Vega, Saturio AU - Seijo-Martínez, Manuel AU - Saz, Pedro AU - Rodriguez, Fernanda AU - Rodríguez-Laso, Ángel AU - Pérez de las Heras, Susana AU - Mateos, Raimundo AU - Martínez-Martín, Pablo AU - Mahillo-Fernandez, Ignacio AU - Garre-Olmo, Josep AU - Gascón, Jordi AU - Garcia-Garcia, Francisco Jose AU - Fernández-Martínez, Manuel AU - Bermejo-Pareja, Félix AU - Bergareche, Alberto AU - Benito-León, Julián AU - Pedro-Cuesta, Jesus de PY - 2017 DO - 10.1186/s12877-016-0409-9 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/4807 AB - BACKGROUND: Sense of Coherence (SOC) is defined as a tendency to perceive life experiences as comprehensible, manageable and meaningful. The construct is split in three major domains: Comprehensibility, Manageability, and Meaningfulness. SOC has been... LA - eng PB - BioMed Central (BMC) KW - Sense of coherence KW - Disability KW - Dependence KW - Katz index KW - WHODAS 2.0 TI - A protective personal factor against disability and dependence in the elderly: an ordinal regression analysis with nine geographically-defined samples from Spain TY - research article ER -