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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 indexes of life event stress, for research purposes. These include [[example needed. Other researchers, notably George Brown developed semi-structured interview techniques to assess life event stress levels.



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