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Life Events Scale

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Life Events ScaleAnn Skinner2023-02-03T11:18:20-04:00
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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.
  • Rothenberg, W.A., Lansford, J.E., Uribe Tirado, M.L., Yotanyamaneewong, S., Peña Alampay, L., Al-Hassan, S.M., Bacchini, D., Chang, L, Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K.A., Gurdal, S., Liu, Q., Long, Q., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A.T., Sorbring, E., Tapanya, S., Steinberg, L., & Bornstein, M.H. (2022). The intergenerational transmission of maladaptive parenting and its impact on child mental health: Examining cross-cultural mediating pathways and moderating protective factors. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. Advanced online publication.
  • Zietz, S., Lansford, J. E., Liu, Q., Long, Q., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Sorbring, E., Skinner, A. T., Steinberg, L., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Yotanyamaneewong, S., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S.M., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Gurdal, S. (in press) A longitudinal examination of the family stress model of economic hardship in seven countries. Children and Youth Services Review. 

Wave(s) Used

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

Measure PDF

Parent Life Events Measure PDF

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This project is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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