Holmes And Rahe - Self Report Measures Of Stress

Question 1

Method used

Answer 1

Questionnaire self report designed to ascertain how much each life event was felt to be stressor

Question 2

Aim

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Participants used

Answer 3

394 participants

179 males
215 females

Range of occupations
Range of education and ability

Question 4

Procedure

Answer 4

Each participant was asked to rate a series of 43 life events

Each event was to be judged as requiring more or less readjustment

Rating could be on own experiences and perceptions of other people’s experiences

Amount and time was taken in consideration

Question 5

What was given an arbitrary rating of 50?

Answer 5

Marriage

Question 6

Results

Answer 6

The final SRRS was completed on the mean scores allocated by participants.

Correlations were high in all groups but one.

There was a less correlation between white and black people

Question 7

What was concluded here

Answer 7

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