Social Readjustment Rating Scale.
SRRS
Cumulative life-event stress - each experienced life event carries a normatively scaled life-change unit (LCU) weight, summed to a stress-load score used to predict illness risk
- Length and format
- 43 life events. checklist of events experienced in a defined period (usually 12 months), each weighted by its LCU value (checklist/symptom inventory)
- Language versions
- 20+ langs; the LCU weighting exercise itself has been repeated in many countries as a cross-cultural stress-perception study
- Licence
- mixed
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- Reference
- Holmes, T.H., & Rahe, R.H. (1967). The Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 11(2), 213-218.
Measures you can take in clinical: mood, anxiety and stress
These are measures in the same field, which you can take here. This entry does not describe them.
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14 items. open with attribution.
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5 items. public-domain / open.
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