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Stress and Your Life

Stress and Your Life. The Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Stress and Your Life. By the end of this session you should be able to: Describe and the research of Holmes and Rahe (1967) Relate the stress of life events to wellness

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Stress and Your Life

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  1. Stress and Your Life The Social Readjustment Rating Scale

  2. Stress and Your Life • By the end of this session you should be able to: • Describe and the research of Holmes and Rahe (1967) • Relate the stress of life events to wellness • Identify hassles and uplifts and their effect on health according to Kanner et al. (1981) • Some learners will also be able to evaluate the research mentioned above.

  3. Identify your life stressors • In your groups, you are sorting through the stress strips. Put them into order of severity according to the group consensus. • Give the most severe a score of 100 and rate as many of the others as you can. • Follow the instructions in the envelope.

  4. The SRRS • The Social Readjustment Rating Scale was developed by Holmes and Rahe (1967). • Several hundred middle-aged men in California were given questionnaires in order to identify their most significant life events. • The scores they gave were adjusted so that marriage was rated at 50 and the highest, death of a spouse, was rated at 100

  5. Your SRRS • How did your group SRRS compare with the Holmes and Rahe version? • Look at the scale, and see if you can measure your own LCU score for the last year.

  6. Effect on Health • Holmes and Rahe found a correlation of +0.118 between LCU scores over the preceding year and incidence of CHD in following months. • Sarafino (1994) found correlation +0.3 • Also, LCU greater than 100, strong likelihood of hospitalisation in following year

  7. Evaluation • Page 113 Psychology in Focus • Positive: Ease of measurement • Negative: Correlation – causality – may be other intervening variables. Also, 0.3 isn’t very strong, let alone 0.118

  8. Cognitive Appraisal: Stressors may mean different things to different people in terms of severity

  9. Hassles and Uplifts • Kanner et al. (1981) believed that major life events may be stressful, but it’s the hassles in life that really wear us down!

  10. Hassles and Uplifts • Uplifts are those little things that we experience that make us feel a bit better

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  12. In your groups, list up to TEN hassles And List up to TEN uplifts Using the clipboard

  13. How did you rate – hassles?

  14. How did you rate – uplifts?

  15. Hassles, uplifts and respiratory infection Stone et al. (1987)

  16. Hassles, uplifts and respiratory infection

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