Holmes And Rache: Self-report Measures Of Stress

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

To create a method that estimates the extent to which life events are stressors

Question 2

Participants

Answer 2

394

Question 3

Procedure

Answer 3

Asked to rate 43 life events.
Marriage given arbitrary rating of 500
Ratings based on readjustment

Ratings could be own experiences or of other people’s experiences

Question 4

Results

Answer 4

The final SRRS was completed on mean scores

Correlation high apart from between white and black people

Question 5

Conclusions

Answer 5

The degree of similarity between different groups is impressive and shows agreement in general of what constitutes a life event and how much they cause stress

Question 6

Background

Answer 6

Thomas Holmes and Richard Rache developed a scale that listed major life events, each having a rating on how stressful it was. It was names the SRRS(social. Readjustment rating scale)

To develop this scale they derived a list of events from clinical experience and asked a group of people to write amount of adjustment each event would require

The scale is used by asking people to tick The events that have happened in the last two years. Values added to give a total stress score