Abstract
Social Readjustment Rating Questionnaire data from a selected sample of 67 New Zealanders associated with the academic, research and administrative departments of the University of Otago Faculty of Medicine at the Christchurch Hospital Clinical School, were compared with data from the original Holmes and Rahe sample of 394 middle and lower class Americans. Agreement between the New Zealand and American samples was highly significant at the 0·00001 level of confidence regarding the establishment of a relative order of magnitude to life event changes. Some interesting minor differences were observed. Americans rated higher the items relating to financial security, attitudes towards work-related matters, troubles with in-laws and religious activities. New Zealanders indicated much greater concern regarding adjustment to the death of a close friend and were slightly more concerned over matters relating to schooling.
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