Holmes and Rahe (1967)- self report measures of stress

Question 1

What is the aim?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Whats the method?

Answer 2

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self report

designed tp ascertain how much each life eventwas felt to be a stressor

Question 3

how many pps?

Answer 3

394 pps

179 males

215 females

Question 4

what is the procedure?

Answer 4

pps asked to rate a series of 43 life events

marriage given an arbitary rating of 50

each event to be judged as requiring more or less adjustment

ratings could be on own or perceptions of experiences

amount of readjustment and time taken was considered

Question 5

what are the results?

Answer 5

the final srs was completed on the mean scores allocated by pp’s

correlations were high in all groups but one

less correlation between black and white people

Question 6

What conclusions were drawn?

Answer 6

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.