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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:

• Social Readjustment Rating Scale

Other researchers, notably George Brown developed semi-structured interview techniques to assess life event stress levels.

See alsoEdit

• Stress management
• Stress reactions

References and BibliographyEdit

Key Texts – BooksEdit

• Dohrenwend, B.S. and Dohrenwend, B.P. (eds) (1974) Stressful Life Events: Their Nature and Effects, New York: John Wiley.

Additional material – BooksEdit

Key Texts – PapersEdit

• Holmes, T.H. and Rahe, R.H, (1967) The Social Readjustment Rating Scale, Journal of Psychosomatic Research 11: 213-18.

Additional material - PapersEdit

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