Hassles And Life Events (Kanner)

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

To compare the hassles and uplifts scale + Berkman life events scale as predictors of psychological symptoms

Question 2

Method ; which design was used: what did they do

Answer 2

Repeated measure design - the ps. Completed the hassles and rating scale and the life events scale.

Question 3

Method: What did they use to measure their psychological symptoms of stress

Answer 3

Using the Hopkins checklist (HSCL) and the Bradburn moral scale

Question 4

Sample used : completed what : in what year

Answer 4

100 people who had previously completed a health survey in 1965.

Question 5

Sample: describe yeh characteristics of the sample

Answer 5

From California mostly white, Protestant with adequate or above income and at least 9th grade education.

Question 6

Sample: How many contacted, agreed and dropped out?

Answer 6

216 were initially contacted, 109 were agreed to take part and 9 dropped out

Question 7

Procedure:

Answer 7

All tests were sent out by post one month before the study began.

Question 8

Procedure: how many months after were all the surveys told to be taken?

Answer 8

• the hassles rating for 9 months
• the life events rating after 10 months
• the HSCL and the Bradburn moral scale every month for 9 months

Question 9

What was found from the study

Answer 9

Hassles were consistent from month to month. Life events for men correlated positively with hassles and negatively for uplifts

Question 10

Results; for women what were the results

Answer 10

The more life events they reported the more hassles and uplifts they reported

Question 11

Results: what correlations were found

Answer 11

Hassles frequently correlated positively with psychological symptoms on HSCL

Hassles correlated positively more with psychological symptoms than life events did

Question 12

What was concluded?

Answer 12

Hassles are more powerful predictors of psychological symptoms on HSCL

contribute to psychological symptoms what ever have happened