Life Events Scale

Description

The Life Events Scale is a series of major life events adapted from Dodge, Pettit, & Bates (1994). Parents are read a series of 19 major life events (such as a move, birth of a child, divorce, death of a close family member, etc.) and are asked if that event has occured in the last year, indicating either yes or no.

Reference(s)

Dodge, K. A., Pettit, G. S., & Bates, J. E. (1994). Socialization mediators of the relation between socioeconomic status and child conduct problems. Child Development, 65, 649-665.

Publication(s)

Chang, L., Lu, H., Lansford, J. E., Bornstein, M. H., Steinberg, L., Chen, B., Skinner, A. T., Dodge, K. A., Deater-Deckard, K., Bacchini, D., Pastorelli, C., Alampay, L. P., Tapanya, S., Sorbring, E., Oburu, P., Al-Hassan, S., Di Giunta, L., Malone, P. S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., & Yotanyamaneewong, S. (2019). External environment and internal state in relation to life-history behavioural profiles of adolescents in nine countries. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1917), 20192097.

Garcia, A. S., & Alampay, L. P. (2012). Parental efficacy, experience of stressful life events, and child externalizing behavior as predictors of Filipino mothers’ and fathers’ parental hostility and aggression. Philippine Journal of Psychology, 45.

Hanson, J. L., Albert, W. D., Skinner, A. T., Shen, S. H., Dodge, K. A., & Lansford, J. E. (2019). Resting state coupling between the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex is related to household income in childhood and indexes future psychological vulnerability to stress. Development and Psychopathology, 31(3), 1053-1066.

Lansford, J. E., Godwin, J., Bornstein, M. H., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Malone, P. S., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., Tapanya, S., Alampay, L. P., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Al-Hassan, S. M., & Bacchini, D. (2017). Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 1675-1688.

Wave(s) Used

Parent: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Measure PDF

Parent Life Events Measure PDF