A03 - life changes

• challenging evidence - Lazarus. One study looked at married couples and found positive correlation of 0.59 between hassles and next-day health problems but found no such relationship between life changes and illness. Failure to find correlation between life changes and illness casts doubt over accuracy of life changes as source of stress and suggests daily hassles may be more useful
• individual differences - doesn't account for the fact that different people may handle life changes differently. Weakness as this reason can't be generalised to everyone
• Lazarus - argued daily hassles are more important source of stress since accumulative effect is stronger than impact of few, relatively rare major life events.
• practical applications - awareness of link between life changes and stress means health professionals can advise people they best way to cope with life changes. Strength as helps reducing stress and consequently stress-related illness