SRRS18842

=18842= =Social readjustment rating scale= =Part 1= My score -192 according to the chart that means I have a moderate stress level. =Part 2= I was a little surprised by my results being as high as they were because I don’t see myself as stressed at all. I have a few things that have happened to me that can cause stress but they don’t seem to be as big a deal as the chart seems to make them. The chart gives a very broad view of things in order to make it slightly possible to measure stress in the population but the elements of upbringing and just mental state in my opinion make this chart very hard view as anything more than just a guess. That is to say while I scored 192 on the chart due to having a friend die and money situation change in my mind sense I have dealt with death several times before that so it doesn’t have that big of an affect and I was taught that money was not all that important. This is of course my life experiences but that is the point if everyone’s life experiences are different and you try to make a chart to measure everyone’s stress you are setting yourself up for failure. =Part 3= The srrs uses a point system to measure stress levels in a person and see if they have a healthy or unhealthy amount of stress. The points were arbitrarily assigned to different life events based on how the researchers viewed them. Higher points mean more stress while low points mean less stress. The scale can only really be used to give a rough estimate on how much stress a person has do to variable such as goals, personality, upbringing, and coping ability. The scales point values were only scaled by men so the scale may have a bias to the male mind set. While the scale is only an estimate it does have a small correlation with people’s health in the past year. One the tests page it says that the scale in only good for rough approximations of stress levels but it has been used in a few tests such as testing 27000 sailors about to embark on a 7 month tour. A small correlation was found with stress level and disease approximately 0.118 but still significant given the size of the study. Study also found that the srrs may not be valid because it ignores chronic stressors. the test will have to be continually updates to keep with the social norm and will have to be able to measure chronic stressors in order for it to be considered a valid test.

 http://ilkley.school-site2.net/docs/Sociology%20and%20Psychology/Stress/sourcesofstress.pdf