Sources of Stress Flashcards
Who devised the Social Readjustment Rating Scale?
Holmes and Rahe.
What does the Social Readjustment Rating Scale measure?
The likely effect of adjustment to life changes on stress levels.
Holmes and Rahe arrived at the Social Readjustment Rating Scale through the examination of the ____________ of ____ people.
Medical records
5000.
How many life events are there on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale?
43.
How big was the sample that Holmes and Rahe asked to assess the degree of change needed for events in the Social Readjustment Rating Scale?
394.
The degree of change needed for an event on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale is measured in what?
A Life Change Unit (LCU) score.
What factor of the events in the Social Readjustment Rating Scale is important?
How much adjustment is required.
When using the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, participants were asked to circle which events they had experienced in the last __ months.
12.
What event was deemed to need the highest amount of adjustment on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale?
What was its LCU score?
Death of a spouse.
100.
What events were deemed to need the lowest amount of adjustment on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale?
What were there LCU scores (roughly)?
Christmas - vacation - minor violations of the law.
12.
What did Holmes and Rahe suggest after using the Social Readjustment Rating Scale?
That the more of the life events somebody has experienced, the more likely they are to suffer from a stress related illness.
What percentage did an overall score of over 300 on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale increase a person’s chance of developing a serious physical illness by?
80.
What percentage did an overall score of between 200 and 300 on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale increase a person’s chance of developing a serious physical illness by?
50.
