Major Life Events that Affect Development

Question 1

Predictable Events:

Answer 1

• Events that happen at particular time, can be positive or negative.
• Starting school/nursery: Make new friends, cope with change, feeling unsafe, withdraw, loss of support from parents.
• Moving house
• Starting family: Attachment, learning parenting skills, loss of free time, feeling tired.
• Beginning employment: Choose work role, income, pressure, difficulty adapting, Loss of past life
• Retirement: Control own life, disengage from work, loss of contact, difficulty making new lifestyle
• leaving home: Independence, control personal environment, unable to cope, pressured by new tasks, loss of family/care support.
• Marriage: Emotional attachment, intimacy, threatened by intimacy, sharing, loss of independence.
• Changing employment

Question 2

Unpredictable Events:

Answer 2

• Events that happen unexpectedly and have serious physical and psychological effects. Can be positive or negative.
• Divorce: Cope with new lifestyle, resentment/depression, grief, cannot adapt to new lifestyle, financial hardship
• Death of family/partner/friend
• Accident or injury
• Promotion
• Redundancy: Adapt changes in income and lifestyle, refusal to accept change, anger, depression, cannot cope
• Serious illness: Adapt to physical change, grief, loss f health, anger, depression

Question 3

The effects of life events on health

Answer 3

• May interact with all aspects of growth and development
• Loss of income due to redundancy, divorce, srious illness/injury
• Leaving home, marriage, parenthood, all involve changes in home, community or friendship networks.
• Major life events will change social, emotional, economic circumstances.
• May feel of loss and grief and lifestyle changes
• New rules, routine, getting used to new environment

Question 4

Holmes-Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale

Answer 4

• Is a questionnaire
• Identifies major stressful life events
• Discovered high the score, importance of events identified, the more likely an individual becomes unwell.

Question 5

Stress Level

Answer 5

• Flooded with hormones
• Raise heart rate
• Increase blood pressure
• Boost energy
• Prepare to deal with problems
• Fight or flight
• Positive: Allow to focus, think, make decisions quicker. Perform better, thrive of stressful situations within dangerous sports or high-risk activities.

Question 6

Health

Answer 6

• Irritable, fatigued, headaches, lack of motivation, unable to concentrate
• Over/under eating, smoking, drinking
• Anxiety attacks, depression, cardiovascular problems
• Alienate family and friends
• Health problems: Immune system, cardiovascular system, respiratory system, digestive system, musculoskeletal system, endocrine system