CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS AND ISRAELI COLLEGE-STUDENTS - THE EFFECT OF THE FAMILY ON THE SENSE OF COHERENCE

Differences between Israeli-born and Soviet-born college students were investigated in relation to their sense of coherence, family function ing and gender. 167 Soviet born and lu Israeli born college students w ere compared on the Sense of Coherence scale, the General Functioning Scale of the McMaster FAD, and the scales of cohesiveness and adaptabi lity of the FACES III, as well as on a variety of demographic variable s. Results indicated that the stress of migration had a negative effec t on the Sense of Coherence. Family functioning was the only variable that added significantly to the explanation of the variance of Sense C oherence.