The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale
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In 1967, psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe performed a study to find out whether stress contributed to illness. They surveyed more than 5,000 medical patients asking asked them to say whether they had experience any of a series of 43 life events in the previous two years. Each event, called a Life Change Unit (LCU), had a different weight for stress. The more events the patient added up, the higher the score. The higher the score, and the larger the weight of each event, the more likely the patient was to become ill.
This is the scale with items listed in order from the stressor that most often correlated with having had an illness in the previous two years at the top of the list to the stressor that least often correlated with having an illness at the bottom of the list:
1 Death of spouse
2 Divorce
3 Marital separation
4 Jail term
5 Death of close family member
6 Personal injury or illness
7 Marriage
8 Fired at work
9 Marital reconciliation
10 Retirement
11 Change in health of family member
12 Pregnancy
13 Sex difficulties
14 Gain of new family member
15 Business readjustment
16 Change in financial state
17 Death of close friend
18 Change to a different line of work
19 Change in number of arguments with spouse
20 A large mortgage or loan
21 Foreclosure of mortgage or loan
22 Change in responsibilities at work
23 Son or daughter leaving home
24 Trouble with in-laws
25 Outstanding personal achievement
26 Spouse begins or stops work
27 Begin or end school/college
28 Change in living conditions
29 Revision of personal habits
30 Trouble with boss
31 Change in work hours or conditions
32 Change in residence
33 Change in school/college
34 Change in recreation
35 Change in church activities
36 Change in social activities
37 A moderate loan or mortgage
38 Change in sleeping habits
39 Change in number of family get-togethers
40 Change in eating habits
41 Vacation
42 Christmas
43 Minor violations of the law
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