Word: rahe
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...attempt to measure the impact of "life change events," Holmes and Psychologist Richard Rahe, working together in the 1940s and '50s, asked 5,000 people to rate the amount of social readjustment required for various events. The result is the widely used Holmes-Rahe scale. At the top is death of a spouse (100 stress points), followed by divorce (73), marital separation (65), imprisonment (63) and death of a close family member (63). Not all stressful events are unpleasant. Marriage rates 50; pregnancy, 40; buying a house, 31; and Christmas, 12. Holmes went on to show that...
...presumably, the hunted went home in sour moods, in time to read News of the World headlines about Diana's supposed onrushing emotional breakdown. The story quoted University of Washington Psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Holmes as saying that Diana had an 80% chance of becoming ill. On his Holmes-Rahe scale, which rates such stressful occurrences as marriage (50), trouble with in-laws (29) and change of financial state (38), Diana scored "an alarming 417." This put her in peril, the doctor was quoted as saying, of ailments ranging from "a prolonged cold to an obsessive-compulsive disorder such...