WorksheetsCauses of Stress
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Who created the Life Events Scale (SRRS)?
Kanner
Holmes & Rahe
Carpenter
Rotter
On the Live Events Scale, Divorce is how many life change units?
62
75
73
43
What can a high number of life change units predict?
Life change
Excitement
Stress & Illness
Death
Which of the following is a strength of Life Events as a cause of stress?
Does not account for individual differences.
Valid as other research has found life events are a good predictor of later stress.
Life events are subjective.
People only experience life events infrequently do don't produce reliable scores
What are minor but infrequent irritations in daily life that might cause stress?
Personality Type
Life Event
Daily Hassles
Workplace Stress
Who devised the daily hassles scale?
Rahe
Batman
Kanner
Johannson
Kanner et al found that daily hassles were...
A significantly stronger predictor of stress than life events
Less of a predictor of stress than life events
Not really a predictor of stress
n
What is one of the limitations of using daily hassles scales?
Research did not confirm a link between daily hassles and stress.
The self report test encouraged more honest responses than an interview.
Could result in inaccurate responses as difficult to recall all hassles, leading to unreliable data.
Workplace stress can be caused by role conflict. What type of role conflict is it when you area FT student but also have a part time job.
Intra role conflict
Inter role conflict
Which of the following is a work environment stressor?
Personality
Temperature
Level of job control
Research has found that the role of job control in stress was dependent on culture. This means that workplace as a cause of stress might not be...
Reliable
Valid
Generalisable to the wider population.
Other psychological factors might explain stress.
Marraige is an example of a...
Daily Hassle
Life Event
Workplace Stress
Personality Type
