Life event questionnaires for measuring presumptive stress.

摘要: Cumulative stress from the impact of life events has become an important variable in psychosomatic and psychological research. This article provides both short long questionnaires that add to incidence information remoteness or recency time a given experience. In weight assignment system leads single presumptive score, remote have less influence than recent events. The reliability was checked subject groups differed by sex, age, status. Women weighted as more stressful did men; other differences were important. spite sex differential, review these data suggests use same assignments for all subgroups rather differential weighting age. Reliability also test retest methods contrast common sense expectation, disappointingly low level found. implications investigative are discussed.