life events (causes of stress) Flashcards

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stress

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  • the way that we feel when the pressure we are under exceeds our ability to cope
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the role of life events

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  • not everyday happenings
  • we have to make a significant psychological adjustment to cope with the situation
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measuring life events

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  • holmes and rahe (1967) developed a questionnaire called the social readjustment rating scale (SRRS)
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strength (eval)

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  • large body of evidence showing that life events are linked to illness and measured using self report methods
  • this means the study is prospective: it predicted future illness from past events
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weakness (eval)

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  • ignores other causes of stress
  • e.g: how workplace stress looks at environmental and organisational factors
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rahe et al (key study)

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  • wanted to see scores on a life events questionnaire predicted the onset of illness
  • concluded that life events are a reasonably robust predictor of later stress-related illness
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strength (key study)

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  • the large number of participants
  • this means they are more likely to be representative of the population
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weakness (key study)

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  • used a self report method
  • means that scales such as SRRS may not give us a valid assessment of the stress people are experiencing
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