Holmes-Rache Social adjustment rating scale

Question 1

What did Holmes and Rahe theory say

Answer 1

• H and R put together a questionnaire called the social readjustment rating scale for identifying 43 major stressful life events
• individuals were asked to select the life events which they had experienced and the scores were then added up
• H and R found that the higher the score a person received and the more stressful the events, the more lie,y they were to be unwell

Question 2

Criticisms

Answer 2

• each individual is unique and deals with stress in different ways
• assumed that every life event would affect people in exactly the same way but this is not always the case