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Stressful life events, or life event stressors, are undesirable, unscheduled, nonnormative, and/or uncontrollable discrete, observable events with a generally clear onset and offset that usually signify major life changes.
definition and assessment of major life events for researchers interested in the effects of life stress on a wide range of disorders. General conceptual and definitional issues are addressed initially, and a conceptual heuristic is proposed for guiding inquiry on major life stress and human disorder.
The research question establishes relationships between a variety of distinct stressors and outcomes, including illness. This line of research emerged when Holmes and Rahe (1967) attempted to measure life stress by assigning numbers, called life-change units, to 43 critical life events (see below).
This article defines and describes the range of measures classified as life events scales, including assessments of major life events, stress appraisal, chronic stressors, and hassles or daily events. It also discusses the general assessment issues that life events scales aim to address in research on health and illness.
Social stressors fall into three major categories: life events, chronic strains, and daily hassles. Life events are acute changes that require adjustments within a relatively short time period, such as job loss. In general, the impact of a stressful life event depends on its magnitude, desirability, expected-
Life stress is a central construct in many models of human health and disease. The present article reviews research on stress and health, with a focus on (a) how life stress has been conceptualized and measured over time, (b) recent evidence linking stress and disease, and (c) mechanisms that might underlie these effects.
22 Νοε 2021 · We construct an index of stressful life events in which events are weighted by the expected within-individual change in mental health associated with them, estimated from a multivariate model adjusted for unobserved time-invariant confounders and any confounding among events.
