Holmes and Rahe
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- Created on: 10-03-23 19:55
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- Holmes and Rahe
- What can cause stress?
- Environmental
- Pollution
- Poor housing
- Lack of access to services
- Social
- Family dysfunction
- Relationship breakdown
- Bullying
- Culture and religion
- Economic
- Poverty
- Unemployment
- Low educational achievement
- Lifestyle
- Diet/ nutrition
- Alcohol
- Smoking
- Drug use
- Exercise
- Peer pressures
- Values and attitudes
- Environmental
- A questionnaire called 'The Social Readjustment Rating Scale'
- Identified stressful life events
- 43 life events with a different score for stress level
- They asked individuals to score how the events they had experienced affected their stress levels
- They discovered that the higher the score and the more importance of each life event identified, the more likely an individual was to become unwell
- Identified stressful life events
- A total value for stressful life events can be worked out by adding up the score for each experienced over a 12 month period
- Less than 150 life change units = 30% of suffering from stress
- 150 - 299 life change units = 50% chance of suffering from stress
- Over 300 life change units = 80% chance of suffering from stress
- Weaknesses
- Does not take individual difference into consideration
- The scale assumes that each stressor affects people the same way
- Most people experience major life events very infrequently - a better measure of stress might look at the stresses of daily life (daily hassles)
- What can cause stress?
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