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Assessing the Impact of Life Changes

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This chapter reviews the literature on life changes, particularly as they relate to health, disease, and recovery from illness. One of the areas of greatest current activity concerns the quantitative assessment of these changes, which are often referred to as stressful life events. We shall review this topic and provide a theoretical perspective for future research.

Preparation of this chapter was supported in part by the U.S. Office of Naval Research Contract N00014-80-C-0522, NR 170-908, and by the National Institutes of Health Training Grant GMO 7266.

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Sarason, I.G., Levine, H.M., Sarason, B.R. (1982). Assessing the Impact of Life Changes. In: Millon, T., Green, C.J., Meagher, R.B. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3412-5_16

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