What kinds of physical, personality, social, or environmental variables might relate to the impact of major life events on our experience of stress and our physical well-being? Propose a correlational study in which you examine major life events and at least one other variable of psychological interest. What outcome might you measure and how? What might you predict? Be sure to state your hypotheses and operationalize your variables as clearly as you can. Holmes and Rahe's (1967) SRRS should probably appear somewhere in your proposal.
What will be an ideal response?
Students will propose a variety of studies. One example might be to determine the impact of life events on the frequency of health challenges. In this study, the hypothesis would be that, as the scores on the Holmes and Rahe SRRS increase, the frequency of reported colds will increase. The variable of the frequency of colds will be the number of times the individual elects to take medication to relieve the symptoms of a cold within a six-month period. Correlational statistics will be performed to examine the relationship between major life events and the frequency of colds.
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