Carmel S, Bernstein J
Psychol Rep. 1989 Aug;65(1):221-2. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1989.65.1.221.
A study of trait-anxiety and sense of coherence on a group of medical students over 18 mo. shows that, although both characteristics are rather stable over time, the measure of sense of coherence is more sensitive to stressors than A-trait and is better predicted by A-trait than the opposite.