Life changes LCU

Question 1

Who developed the Life changes scale

Answer 1

Holms and Rahe

Question 2

What is a life event

Answer 2

Significant but infrequent changes in life which have to exert physiological energy to deal with

Question 3

A01 of the scale how made

Answer 3

devised by 500 patient medical records of heart issues found 43 sugnificant life events. Gave judges the list and they ranked them of LCU score 300 illness occurs

Question 4

What is supportive research

Answer 4

Rahe-assessed 3000 male sailors about to go on 3 ships, given a scale of schedule of recent experiences 6 months before deploment - developed LCU score then sailors reported illness no matter how trivial. Independant researcher reviewed LCU and illness score

Question 5

Findings of Rahes research

Answer 5

Weak positive correlation of 0.118 between LCU and illness prediction

Question 6

A03

Answer 6

Supporting evidence Rahe
Ignores indiviudal differences- preganacy if planned less stress ful
Contains both positive and negative LCU’s, fodund pp asked to score subjectively negative had more scores therefore can not be placed on same scale.

Question 7

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Type of study Rahe

Answer 7

Prospective study