Holmes and Rahe

• Holmes and Rahe developed a questionnaire called the Social Readjustment Rating Scale to rate and measure total stress scores
• the SRRS identifies 43 life events each with a different score. They asked individuals to score what they had experienced affected their stress levels
• they discovered the higher the score the more likely an individual was to become unwell
• critics argue that each individual is unique and deals with stress in different ways. Major life events are not experienced frequently but people still may experience stress from daily hassles