Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-t5tsf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-13T00:48:04.591Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The List of Threatening Experiences: a subset of 12 life event categories with considerable long-term contextual threat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Traolach Brugha ,
Paul Bebbington ,
Christopher Tennant  and
Jane Hurry
Traolach Brugha*
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Paul Bebbington
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Christopher Tennant
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Jane Hurry
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
*
1 Address for correspondence: Dr T. Brugha, MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Synopsis

In a survey of a random sample of the general population recent life events, collected and rated for long-term contextual threat according to the methods of Brown & Harris (1978), were also recorded where possible on an inventory of life event categories (Tennant & Andrews, 1977). Of the 82·5% of all events collected which were covered by the inventory, 12 of the 67 event categories accounted for 77% of life events with an aetiologicaly significant rating of marked or moderate long-term threat. Where practical and economic constraints oblige research workers to choose the inventory method, a brief list of event categories, such as the List of Threatening Experiences, is recommended in preference to much longer lists.

Type
Brief Communication
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1985 , pp. 189 - 194
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bebbington, P. E., Hurry, J., Tennant, C., Sturt, E. & Wing, J. K. (1981 a). The epidemiology of mental disorders in Camberwell. Psychological Medicine 11, 561–579.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bebbington, P. E., Tennant, C. & Hurry, J. (1981 b). Life events and the nature of psychiatric disorder in the community. Journal of Affective Disorders 3, 345–366.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bebbington, P. E., Tennant, C., Sturt, E. & Hurry, J. (1984 a). The domain of life events: a comparison of two techniques of description. Psychological Medicine 14, 219–222.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bebbington, P. E., Sturt, E., Tennant, C. & Hurry, J. (1984 b). Misfortune and resilience: a community study of women. Psychological Medicine 14, 347–363.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Brown, G. W. (1981). Life events, psychiatric disorder and physical illness. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 25, 461–473.Google ScholarPubMed
Brown, G. W. & Harris, T. (1978). The Social Origins of Depression. Tavistock Publications: London.Google ScholarPubMed
Brugha, T. & Conroy, R. (1985). Categories of depression: reported life events in a controlled design. British Journal of Psychiatry (in the press).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Firth, I. & Brewin, C. (1982). Attributions and recovery from depression: a preliminary study using cross-lagged correlation analysis. British Journal of Clinical Psychology 21, 229–230.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Henderson, S., Byrne, D. G. & Duncan-Jones, P. (1981). Neurosis and the Social Environment. Academic Press: Australia.Google Scholar
Holmes, T. H. & Rahe, R. H. (1967). The Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 11, 213–218.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Katschnig, H. (1980). Measuring life stress: In The Suicide Syndrome (ed. Farmer, R. and Hirsch, S.), pp. 116–123. Croom and Helm: London.Google Scholar
Leff, J. P. & Vaughn, C. (1980). The interaction of life events and relatives' expressed emotion in schizophrenia and depressive neurosis. British Journal of Psychiatry 136, 146–153.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Paykel, E. S., Prusoff, B. A. & Uhlenhuth, E. H. (1971). Scaling of life events. Archives of General Psychiatry 25, 340–347.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Paykel, E. S., McGuiness, B. & Gomez, J. (1976). An Anglo-American comparison of the scaling of life events. British Journal of Medical Psychology 49, 237–247.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sturt, E., Bebbington, P. E., Hurry, J. & Tennant, C. (1981). The Present State Examination used by interviewers from a Survey Agency: Report from the Camberwell Community Survey. Psychological Medicine 11, 185–192.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tennant, C. & Andrews, G. (1977). A scale to measure the cause of life events. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 11, 163–167.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tennant, C., Bebbington, P. E. & Hurry, J. (1981). The role of life events in depressive illness: is there a substantial causal relation? Psychological Medicine 11, 379–389.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wing, J. K., Cooper, J. E. & Sartorius, N. (1974). Measurement and Classification of Psychiatric Symptoms. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.Google Scholar