Life Changes

Life Changes

Research on life changes
1. Using life changes to measure stress
  1. Holmes and Rahe
    1. Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)
      1. Difficulty of change measured in Life Change Units (LCUs)
      2. Based on 43 life events from an analysis of 5000 patient records
    2. Hypothesised that there was a positive correlation between number of life events and illness
      1. Both positive and negative change can cause stress
  2. Rahe et al
    1. Tested Holmes and Rahe's hypothesis
      1. Tested naval men over 6 months
        Found a positive correlation between LCU scores and illness scores of +11.8
2. Recent research on life changes
  1. Michael and Ben-Zur
    1. Different life changes can have different effects
      1. Studied the life satisfaction of 130 men and women
        Half were recently divorced
        Increase in life satisfaction
        Half were recently widowed
        Decrease in life satisfaction
Evaluation
1. Positive and negative life events
  1. SRRS suggests that any life changing event has the potential to damage as it entails readjustment
    1. Some suggest the quality of the event is important
      1. Uncontrolled changes are the most harmful
2. Life changes and daily hassles
  1. Lazarus
    1. Suggests that major life changes are relatively rare and so daily hassles are the more significant source of stress
      1. DeLongis et al
        Found a greater link between ill health and daily hassles
3. Individual differences
  1. Life changes have different significance for different people
4. Spurious relationship
  1. The relationship between life changes and illness has produced correlational data
    1. We can't draw causal conclusions

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