Study Block & Zautra (1981): study US Arizona 1979
- Public
- General public, 3 cities, Arizona, USA, 1979
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 537
- Non Response
- 11 %
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Total Life Events
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Life events were assessed with a 65-item inventory developed by revising the SRRS (Holmes & Rahe, 1967) and adding positive life events.
Residents were asked two questions about each event listed on the inventory
-first, whether the event had taken place in their lives during the last year
-second, to rate, whether the event "turned out" positive,(PE), negative, (NE),
had both positive and negative outcomes,
or had no effect on them.Events rated as having both positive and negative outcomes were not scored for PE and NE (about 10%).
They were counted together with the total number of events reported, TE.