Life changes mindmap
- Created by: Lucy Hodgson
- Created on: 03-06-13 09:31
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- Life Changes
- Holmes and Rahe.
- Aimed to find out whether life changes would affect the individuals illness and stress.
- They make a list of 43 most common life events and asked people to rate them from 1 - 100.
- They then ranked the scores and created the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS). They said the higher the rank, the more stressful the event.
- For example, death of a spouse was 100, divorce was 73, marriage was 50, retirement was 45 and Christmas was 12.
- They found a positive correlation between the likelihood of illness or stress and the high scores on the SRRS.
- Evaluation Points
- The SRRS does not separate positive and negative events - so divorce may be a happy or sad event depending upon the individual.
- Some events are out of our control so they need to be classed as undesirable or desirable.
- As it was correlational, it does not consider someone's susceptibility to stress or levels of health.
- Easy to replicate.
- Rahe et al.
- This was a correlational study which was carried out upon 2500 American Naval Sailors.
- It was done just before they were deployed. They were asked to indicate all previous life changes in the previous 6 months.
- It was found that high SRRS scores were linked to a higher incidence of illness in the next seven months.
- Evaluation Points
- Not representative of the population, all American, all sailors.
- Correlational study so it does not explain causality.
- However, correlational studies do show a relationship between variables.
- Holmes and Rahe.
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