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Student stress scale assignment about stress factors in everyday scenarios...

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Your name: Becca Woche Chapter 11 Health and Well-Being Stressor Activities This Student Stress Scale (SSS) is an adaptation of Holmes and Rahe's Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Each event is given a score that represents the amount of readjustment a person has to make in life as a result of the change (Life Change Unit). Please circle the events that you have experienced in the past 12 months. Then score the questionnaire using the information below. Event

Life change units

Event

Life change units

Death of a close family member

100

Increased workload at school

Death of a close friend

73

Outstanding personal achievement

36

Divorce between parents

65

First term in college

35

Jail term

63

Change in living conditions

31

Serious argument with instructor

30

Major personal injury or illness

63

37

Marriage

58

Lower grades than expected

29

Being fired from a job

50

Change in sleeping habits

29

Failing important course

47

Change in social activities

29

Change in health of family member

45

Change in eating habits

Pregnancy

45

Chronic car trouble

26

Sex problems

44

Change in number of family get-togethers

26

Serious argument with close friend

40

Too many missed classes

25

Change in financial status

39

Change of college

24

Change in major

39

Dropping more than one class

23

Trouble with parents

39

Minor traffic violations

New girlfriend or boyfriend

38

28

20

1. Please add up all of the life change units for events you circled. Then write your total SSS score here: 544 2. What is your chance of health risk? (see below): __________ HIGH health risk: People with scores of 300 and higher have a high risk of experiencing a serious health change. MEDIUM health risk: For people scoring between 150 and 299 points, about one in two persons is likely to have a serious health change. LOW health risk: For people scoring 149 points or less, about one in three persons is likely to have a serious health change. Next, please flip the page and respond to the questions on the back

3. Please explain how your score (and the stressors you have been experiencing) may or may not be associated with changes in your health (again, over the past 12 months). Be sure to be concrete in explaining your score and linking it with your stress levels and possible effects on your health. I have had obstacles thrown at me left and rate throughout the past year. I feel like as soon as I am able to breathe, something else occurs. It has really a torn into my mental health which then causes my sleeping and eating habits to be irregular. I moved 23 hours away from home which is both a good and a hard thing to deal with. Driving that distance has caused my car to have problems, while being a college student I can hardly afford to keep up with school expenses. So, it has brought another problem into my list on worrying about my car. Without my car, I cannot get a job so now I have no sort of income. Everything is just one big cycle that all feeds into one another.

4. Last, what do your results show about what changes you might want to make in your life? I try to take some days off for myself and mental health to just take a step back and breathe. I have so much going on I never try to appreciate what is going positive in my life. I want to try to start working out as a stress reliever and will also be beneficial to my health....