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11 Cards in this Set
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What was Holmes and Rahe (1967) and Rahe et al (1970) aim?
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To demonstrate the link between life changes and illness
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What did Holmes and Rahe (1967) develop? What was it/what did it contain?
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The Social Readjustment Rating Scale which contained 43 life events taken from analysed hospital records. 400 participant were ask to score event of how much readjustment would be required by the average person
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Who did Rahe et al (1970) give a version of the SRRS to?
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military men - about 2700 about to go on tour of duty
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What did Rahe et al (1970) find?
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A significant positive correlation between LCU score and illness score of 0.118.
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What did Rahe et al conclude from his study?
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that there was a link between life changes and illness and that to some extent illness is stress related
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What is the strength of using questionnaires in stress?
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- participants more willing to tell the truth when writing things down |
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What are the strengths and limitations of correlation in stress?
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Strength: required no manipulation, people could naturally carry on with their lives
Weakness: Does not tell you about cause and effect, just because two things correlate it doesn't mean one is the result of the other |
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What did DeLongis et al devise and why?
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The Hassles and Uplifts Scale - to evaluate the impact of both negative and positive events that occur in each person's daily life
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Who did DeLongis give the questionnaires and the hassles and uplifts scale to?
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75 married couples
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What did DeLongis find?
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They found no correlation between life events and health but did find a significant positive correlation of 0.59 between hassles and next day health problems such as flu, sore throats, head aches and back aches
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What did DeLongis conclude?
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Hassles were a better predictor of health problems than life events and that stress-related illness there could come from everyday negative effects
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