Holmes and Rahe

Question 1

What was the questionnaire called that they had developed?

Answer 1

Social readjustment rating scale

Question 2

How many major stressful life events were in the questionnaire?

Answer 2

43

each one had a different score

Question 3

What did they deduct from the test.

Answer 3

The higher the score a person received and the more stressful, the more likely they are to be unwell

Question 4

What were the criticisms of their theory?

Answer 4

each individual is unique and would deal with stress in different ways.
assumed that every life event would affect people in the same way but its not always the case