SRRS17946

17946 SRRS Response

Total Stress of 120 I was slightly surprised at the results of this test. I thought my stress level would have been high than it was. Recently in the past year I have separated from the military, started school full time and am now working a part time job. These are three relatively major changes in a person’s life and even if just one happened at a time it is still a major change. I went through all three in a matter of a few weeks. One of the factors that I believed to be a little low on the scale was change in financial state. While I don’t believe that this should be in the same range as some of the higher ones, I do believe that it should be higher than personal injury or illness. In my own experience, I have broken a number of bones in my life, roughly 7, and that personal injury did not create much change in my life. This test is labeled social readjustment rather than stress because not all of the factors are considered stressful by some people; however they are a lifestyle change. The SRRS test measures stress based on what they call “life-changing units”. This means that even if an event in a person’s life is positive, for example marriage, it can still add to a person’s overall stress because of the life changing impact it can have on an individual. The test measures stress based on what a typical person would believe how certain events should impact his or her own life and how much stress he or she believes it places on his or her own life. These factors of stress may differ from person to person, but the overall evaluations of how these stressors can affect a person are for some proven. For example, stress is proven to have an influence on a person’s heart. High levels of stress make a person more susceptible to heart attacks. However, the test also claims that stress can lead to broken bones. Stress is not going to break a person’s bone. It could lead to an altered mental state that may cause a person to take an unnecessary risk that could lead to a broken bone, but the claim made almost seems to imply that stress can directly cause broken bones in the same way that stress can directly affect a person’s heart. This test seems to be very valid for the most part. The relation to certain life changing events and stress is fairly accurate with little room for debate over whether or not these events are stressful. The only debatable part of the test lies with how individual people value how much these events have an impact on his or her life. The test itself even states an inherent variation to the values assigned to each event because of how a stressor can vary from one person to the next because of the variability in circumstances, interpretation, goals, values, coping ability, personality and resources from one person to the next.
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