Life Events Scale

The Life Events scale assesses the presence of a wide range of important events in the respondent's life, such as death of a spouse, close relative, or friend, divorce/separation, personal illness or injury, job loss or job change, sexual difficulties, financial problems, etc.

NTR uses a Dutch version of a life-events scale, adapted from scales used in the Finnish Twin Cohorts which were based on the Holmes-Rahe scale and the Trauma History Screen instrument.

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  • Young Netherlands Twin Register

  • YS_DHBQP
    •   CC SS
    14.0 - 18.0 years   From 2004-01-01 to 2004-01-01
  • YS_DHBQ14
    •   CC SS
    14.0 years   From 2005-01-01 to 2013-01-01
  • YS_DHBQ16
    •   CC SS
    16.0 years   From 2005-01-01 to 2013-01-01
  • YS_DHBQ18
    •   CC SS
    18.0 years   From 2005-01-01 to 2006-01-01
  • YC_BS2
    •   CC SS
    12.0 years   From 2007-01-01 to 2009-01-01
    Mode of collection SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Analysis unit Individual
    References
    Holmes, T. H., & Rahe, R. H. (1967). The social readjustment rating scale. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 11(2), 213–218. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3999(67)90010-4
    Lillberg, K. (2003). Stressful Life Events and Risk of Breast Cancer in 10,808 Women: A Cohort Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 157(5), 415–423. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwg002
    Carlson, E. B., Smith, S. R., Palmieri, P. A., Dalenberg, C., Ruzek, J. I., Kimerling, R., Burling, T. A., & Spain, D. A. (2011). Development and validation of a brief self-report measure of trauma exposure: The Trauma History Screen. Psychological Assessment, 23(2), 463–477. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022294
    Piirtola, M., Kaprio, J., Baker, T. B., Piasecki, T. M., Piper, M. E., & Korhonen, T. (2021). The associations of smoking dependence motives with depression among daily smokers. Addiction, 116(8), 2162–2174. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15390
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