Study Zautra et al. (1977): study US Salt Lake County, Utah 1975
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, Salt Lake County, USA, 1973-74
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 454
- Non Response
- 15%
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
interview at home, with closed and open ended questions
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Life crisis
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Factor loading on:
-Negative affect:
measured by Negative Affect Scale,
see BRADB 69
-Survey of recent events:
to assess the magnitude of life
changes experienced by respondent
during last year, the Holmes & Rahe
Survey of Recent events was used.
(Holmes & Rahe 1967)
-22-item psychiatric screening
inventory: used to assess psychiatric
symptoms. (Langner 1963)
-Requests for assistance:
measured by a checklist of
professional agencies indicating how
many places the respondent had
requested help for"personal problems
in living".