The social readjustment rating scale: A comparative study of Swedes and Americans

Rahe, Richard H.; Lundberg, Ulf; Bennett, Linda; Theorell, Töres

doi:10.1016/0022-3999(71)90035-3

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“…Although there have been as many as a dozen separate life changes scaling studies conducted to date, results of these studies can be exemplified by a single such investigation [13] . In this study, possible cross-cultural differences in life change unit scoring were investigated between a sample of Swedes living in Stockholm and the original American sample studied in Seattle.…”

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Epidemiological Studies of Life Change and Illness

Rahe

1975

Int J Psychiatry Med

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Currently popular methodologies in life changes and illness research are presented in some detail. Selected examples of epidemiological studies utilizing these methodololgies are briefly reviewed. Examples of both retrospective and prospective investigations of life change and illness are given. Discussed in the chapter are the author's views as to limitations of the epidemiologic method and probable directions of future research in efforts to clarify etiologic mechanisms along the pathway between subjects' recent life changes and their subsequent susceptibility to illness.

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Epidemiological Studies of Life Change and Illness

Rahe

1975

Int J Psychiatry Med

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“…All members of the executive pool were mailed two questionnaires, one about stressful live events and one about symptomatology: the Schedule of Recent Life Events (Holmes & Rahe, 1967;Rahe, Lundberg, Theorell, & Bennett, 1971), and the Seriousness of Illness Survey (Wyler, Masuda, & Holmes, 1968;1970). These are the measures which have provided a good deal of the evidence from which the conclusion has developed that stress increases the likelihood of illness (Holmes & Masuda, 1974).…”

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Personality and resistance to illness

Kobasa

1979

American J of Comm Psychol

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Personality was found significantly to mitigate the illness-provoking effects of stressful life events. Two groups of executives had comparably high degrees of stress over a 3-year interval, as measured by the Holmes and Rahe Schedule of Recent Life Events. One group (n = 86) suffered high stress without falling ill, while the other (n = 75) reported becoming sick after their encounter with stressful life events. Illness was measured by the Wyler, Masuda, and Holmes Seriousness of Illness Survey. Discriminant function analysis supported the prediction that high stress/low illness executives show, by comparison with high stress/high illness executives, more control, commitment, and interest in change as a challenge.

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“…The associated Social Readjustment Rating Scale (Rahe, Lundberg, Theorell, & Bennett, 1971) gives the consensual weights for these events (e.g., on a scale from 1 to 100, divorce gets a mean score of 73 and vacation, a score of 13). The stressfulness of a particular person's life is measured in this procedure by finding out what events he or she has encountered and scoring the occurrences according to their consensually quantified weights.…”

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Stressful life events, personality, and health: An inquiry into hardiness.

Kobasa¹

1979

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Personality was studied as a conditioner of the effects of stressful life events on illness onset. Two groups of middle and upper level executives had comparably high degrees of stressful life events in the previous 3 years, as measured by the Holmes and Rahe Schedule of Recent Life Events. One group (n = 86) suffered high stress without falling ill, whereas the other (n = 75) reported becoming sick after their encounter with stressful life events. Illness was measured by the Wyler, Masuda, and Holmes Seriousness of Illness Survey. Discriminant function analysis, run on half of the subjects in each group and cross-validated on the remaining cases, supported the prediction that high stress/low illness executives show, by comparison with high stress/high illness executives, more hardiness, that is, have a stronger commitment to self, an attitude of vigorousness toward the environment, a sense of meaningfulness, and an internal locus of control.

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The social readjustment rating scale: A comparative study of Swedes and Americans

Cited by 46 publications

References 4 publications

Epidemiological Studies of Life Change and Illness

Epidemiological Studies of Life Change and Illness

Personality and resistance to illness

Stressful life events, personality, and health: An inquiry into hardiness.

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