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Life Stress and Marital Conflict A Pilot Study *
Author(s) -
Frederickson Charles G.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1977.tb00468.x
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , psychology , clinical psychology , rating scale , scale (ratio) , stress (linguistics) , psychiatry , developmental psychology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
The pilot study presented in this paper focuses on the relationship of life event stress (as measured by the Holmes Social Readjustment Rating Scale) and the incidence of marital dysfunction. It was found that those couples in which one or both partners were receiving marital counseling had experienced a significantly greater amount of life stress events during the previous 12‐month period than had couples who were not experiencing marital dysfunction. The discussion includes a theoretical examination of the life stress event/marital dysfunction relationship, as well as implications regarding the use of this scale by the counselor for preventative and intervention purposes.