Development of the Life Events Survey as a Measuring Instrument for Stress Research.
Abstract
Life events research has identified and continues investigation of the relationship between life events and an individual's susceptibility to illness. This relationship is explained as follows: life events as stressors, resulting from changes in family, marriage, occupation, economics, residence, personal relationships, education, religion, recreation, and health, are associated with the need for individual adaptive behavior called stress. Research has shown that this stress can take the form of various illnesses. Traditional stressor measuring instruments have been insensitive to individual and group differences. For this reason, this thesis effort developed the Life Events Survey (LES) as a stressor measuring instrument pertinent to DOD employees. The LES identifies major, minor, and continuous life events and provides data on life event frequencies, assessment of event positiveness or negativeness, and quantification of the extent of stress caused by events.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA123131
Entities
People
- Randle K. Bunner
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology