Measurement of adolescents' life events: The junior high life experiences survey
Measurement of adolescents' life events: The junior high life experiences survey
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青少年生活事件的测量:初中生活经历调查
DOI:
10.1007/bf00923260
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
L. Cohen
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文献类型:
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作者:
E. Swearingen;L. Cohen
The first of these two studies examined the relationship between adolescents' scores on a social desirability questionnaire and scores of negative, positive, and total life events. Only number of positive events was significantly related to social desirability. The second study compared various scoring strategies with respect to their intercorrelation and their ability to predict adolescents' maladjustment (depression, anxiety, and number of missed school days). The results demonstrated that (a) total number of events and readjustment-weighted life change scores were equally predictive of the maladjustment criteria; (b) negative events, but not positive events, however scored, were significantly related to the maladjustment criteria; (c) indices based on psychologist-judges' ratings of event desirability were not more predictive of the maladjustment criteria than were indices based on the adolescents' self-reports; and (d) uncontrollable negative events and controllable negative events were equally predictive of the maladjustment criteria.