Study Chiriboga (1977): study US 1974
- Public
- People in transition, metropolis, USA, 1974
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 179
- Non Response
- 19%
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Lengthy interviews
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Stress
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- 48 item list of burdening life-events similar to schedules Holmes & Rahe (1967) and Horowitz(l976). Typical events are: "new job", "got married", and "loss of friends"
Subjects first indicated which of these events had happened to them in the last 3 years and how recently. They next
indicated their feelings about these events by answering to questions on each event ( "What were your feelings when it occurred: very happy, somewhat happy, somewhat unhappy,or very
unhappy?" "Do you still think about the event:not at all=1, some=3, a lot=5?") Seven scores were derived from the responses:
a. Summed occurrence: Holmes & Rahe weights( f.e. recent marriage 50 points)
b. Summed occurrence: Horowitz weights (f.e. recent marriage 21 points)
c. Summed occurrence: each event one point
d. Negative appreciation: number of events experienced as unhappy
e. Positive appreciation: number of
events experienced as happy
f. Negative preoccupation: still thinking of negatively appreciated events (sumscores)
g. Positive preoccupation: still thinking of positively appreciated events (sumscores)