PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Autonomic Nervous System, Heredity, Mescaline

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

This social readjustment rating scale was created by thomas holmes & richard rahe, university of. Washington school of medicine to provide a standardized measure of the impact of a wide range of common stressors. To use the scale, simply add up the values for all of the listed life events that have occurred to you within the past year. If a particular event has happened to you more than once within the last 12 months, multiply the value by the number of occurrences. Enter your value total at the end of the list. The scale is based on the observation that important life changes, whether positive such as marriage or negative, such as death of a close friend all induce stress. Thomas holmes and richard rahe developed the scale by listing common stressful events and arbitrarily assigning a value of 50 life-changing units to the stress caused by marriage.