Life event research.

Presumptive stressful life event scale

Presumptive stressful life event scale Dear Sir, in different demographic and clinical categories, which has not been attempted. I have read with considerable interest the article entitled, Presumptive stressful life events scale (PSLES)-a new stressful life events scale for use in India by Gurmeet Singh et al (April 1984 issue). I think it is a commendable effort to develop such a scale which ...

Election - a Stressful Life Event

54 patients who sought consultation at this centre after developing psychiatric illness following local panchayat elections in Rajasthan were studied. The study aims to find out whether election is a stressful life event, relationship of socio-demographic characteristics, role of process of election, and nature of psychiatric illness as related to election stress. This group was compared to gen...

Life event, stress and illness.

The relationship between stress and illness is complex. The susceptibility to stress varies from person to person. Among the factors that influenced the susceptibility to stress are genetic vulnerability, coping style, type of personality and social support. Not all stress has negative effect. Studies have shown that short-term stress boosted the immune system, but chronic stress has a signific...

Discrete - Event Simulation Research Team

Life Event Research : a Review of Methodology (with Special Reference to India)1

In spite of extensive work having been done on the correlation between significant life events and development of physical as well as psychiatric illnesses, major controversies remain on the methodological issues involved. The present paper deals with some of these issues, e.g., selection of events and formation of event lists, severity rating of individual events, summation of event scores, re...