Question

Juan has been asked by his study group to summarize what he feels is the major drawback of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) first proposed by Holmes and Rahe. After looking through his notes he explains that it:

Answer 1

Explanation:

Despite its usefulness in the research of life transition and sickness, this Rating Scale contains significant limitations. The current scale cannot be used to identify the involvement of different sorts of life changes (for example, positive or negative) in the onset of sickness. Other issues covered include item vagueness, confusion of variables of the study, and item uncertainty, as well as a lack of product detail There are suggestions for better life change assessment and more successful life transition and sickness research.