Life Changes
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- Created on: 04-02-15 13:24
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- Life Changes
- Holmes & Rahe (SRRS)
- PROCEDURES:
- Developed questionnaire = SRRS = Identify major stressful life events
- 43 Life events w/ Life Change Unit
- Pp's asked to "tick" all life events from past year & add up score (LCU)
- Pp's w/ less than 150 on LCU score = 30% increase of stress-related illness
- Pp's w/ 300+ on LCU = 50% of stress-related illness
- PROCEDURES:
- Rahe
- Tested the hypothesis of previous investigation
- PROCEDURES:
- Military version of SRRS - 2700 men
- Filled a questionnaire noting life events over 6 months
- illness score calculated on number, type & severity of illnesses recorded
- RESULTS:
- (+)ve correlation between LCU score and illness score of +.118
- men who scored low = low levels of illness
- men who scored high = high levels of illness
- it isn't the change in itself, but the way an individual deals with a life events = stress
- Androcentric & cannot be generalized with another country = american men & military = dealt with stress already
- EVALUATION:
- Individual Differences
- SRRS = ignores fact that stress has different significance to other people
- example: abusive relationship
- Life changes & daily hassles
- major life changes = rare in people's lives
- minor stressors = cause most stress
- DeLongis:
- 75 married couples
- life events questionnaire & Hassles and Uplifts scale
- found no relationship between life events and health
- significant positive correlation of +.59 between hassles and next-day health problems
- flu, sore throats, headaches & backaches
- significant positive correlation of +.59 between hassles and next-day health problems
- found no relationship between life events and health
- DeLongis:
- minor stressors = cause most stress
- major life changes = rare in people's lives
- Individual Differences
- Holmes & Rahe (SRRS)
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