The contextual threat of life events: the concept and its reliability
- 1 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 9 (3) , 525-528
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700032086
Abstract
Synopsis The reliability of Brown's contextual measure of threat is assessed and found to be highly satisfactory. Previously inexperienced raters achieve highly reliable ratings after only brief training. The implications for the concept of the threat of life events are discussed.Keywords
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