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Life changes (life events or life transistions) are the longer term consequences of life experiences such as:
- Leaving school
- Starting work
- Career change
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Bereavement including parental death
- Retirement
while these events have their immediate consequences they also require longer term adjustments.
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In psychological research life eventsare a class of life stress that are thought to lead to physical or psychological difficulties. they include both 'negative' events {such as losses of various kinds, of partners, jobs etc} and also 'positive' events, {such as getting married, children leaving home etc}.
Various life event inventories have been constructed to return indices of life event stress, for research purposes. These include:
Other researchers, notably George Brown developed semi-structured interview techniques to assess life event stress levels.
See also
- Aging
- Andropause
- Developmental stages
- Disability
- Life history theory
- Life span
- Life style changes
- Menopause
- Parenthood status
- Pregnancy
- Quality of life
- Readiness to change
- Rites of passage
- Stages of change
- Stress management
- Stress reactions
- Wellbeing
References
Furter reading
Key Texts – Books
- Dohrenwend, B.S. and Dohrenwend, B.P. (eds) (1974) Stressful Life Events: Their Nature and Effects, New York: John Wiley.
Additional material – Books
Key Texts – Papers
- Holmes, T.H. and Rahe, R.H, (1967) The Social Readjustment Rating Scale, Journal of Psychosomatic Research 11: 213-18.