3.3.4 Life Events (Str)

Question 1

What are life events a key source of and what are they often known as?

Answer 1

Stress

Often known as life changes

Question 2

Life events require significant what?

Answer 2

Adjustment of lifestyle

Question 3

Give examples of some life events?

Answer 3

Divorce
Bereavement
Health issuers

Question 4

Life events require time and energy to deal with and often incur what?

Answer 4

A psychic cost

Question 5

Research suggests a close relationship between life events and what?

Answer 5

Stress related illness

Question 6

Holmes was interested in investigating the link between what?

Answer 6

Stress and illness

Question 7

Holmes - researched TB patients showing those who became ill has experienced what?

Answer 7

Increase in disturbing occurrences two years prior to admission

Question 8

Holmes research led Holmes and Rahe to develop the idea of what?

Answer 8

Life changes

Question 9

Holmes and Rahe - first using their experience as doctors they drew up a list of what?

Answer 9

Life events that could lead to physical illness

Question 10

Holmes and Rahe - asked 394 participants to do what?

Answer 10

Rate each life event in terms of how much readjustment it would require in a persons life

Question 11

Holmes and Rahe - what did they use as an arbitrary baseline?

Answer 11

Marriage at 50

Question 12

Holmes and Rahe - after analysing the data they developed which scale?

Answer 12

Social readjustment rating scale

Question 13

Holmes and Rahe - the SRRS consisted of how many items?

Answer 13

43

Question 14

Holmes and Rahe - each life event in the SRRS was assigned what value?

Answer 14

A life change unit

Question 15

Holmes and Rahe - what life change unit did death of a spouse receive?

Answer 15

100

Question 16

Holmes and Rahe - what life change unit did divorce receive?

Answer 16

73

Question 17

Holmes and Rahe - in the SRRS what life change unit did pregnancy receive?

Answer 17

40

Question 18

Holmes and Rahe - how was a value for stressful life events calculated for the participant?

Answer 18

Asking them to tick how many of the life events they experienced and adding the LCU scores

Question 19

Holmes and Rahe - the higher the LCU score of a participant the more likely the person was to suffer from what?

Answer 19

Stress and then illness

Question 20

Holmes and Rahe - a score of 150 increased chance of stress related illness by how much?

Answer 20

30%

Question 21

Holmes and Rahe - a score of 300 increased chance of stress related illness by how much?

Answer 21

50%

Question 22

Studies have used the SRRS to measure life events and what?

Answer 22

Relationship with stress and illness

Question 23

Rahe et al looked at the relationship between which two variables?

Answer 23

Stress and illness

Question 24

Rahe et al - used a version of the SRRS known as the SRE what is this?

Answer 24

Schedule of recent experiences

Question 25

Rahe et al - used the SRE to assess who?

Answer 25

2684 navy personnel

Question 26

Rahe et al - when were the participants required to complete the SRE?

Answer 26

Before leaving on a tour of duty

Question 27

Rahe et al - during the 6-8 months after they left what was kept?

Answer 27

A record of any illnesses experienced

Question 28

Rahe et al - data collected showed what type of correlation?

Answer 28

Significant positive correlation between stressful life events and illness

Question 29

Rahe et al - as the number of life events increased what was more likely?

Answer 29

That the individual would be ill

Question 30

As both positive and negative events are included in the SRRS it appears what is more important in creating stress?

Answer 30

Change rather than negativity

Question 31

What creates stress?

Answer 31

Overall amount of psychic energy required to deal with a life event creates stress