Danis Ildikó, Szilvási Tamara, Gervai Judit
MTA Pszichologiai Kutatointezet, Budapest, Hungary.
Psychiatr Hung. 2006;21(3):184-209.
In this study we present LCU (life change unit) and quality rank orders of 92 significant life events as perceived by 184 Hungarian mothers caring for young children. For data collection, a modified Hungarian version of the Social Readjustment Rating Questionnaire (Miller and Rahe, 1997) was used. As with the American results, we could find no significant demographic effects in our sample on the LCU and quality ranking of the events. Although the Hungarian and the American LCU rank orders of 1997 showed high correlation, the LCU mean of the 63 common items was significantly lower for Hungarian mothers than for American ones. In addition, the stressfulness of some specific life events was perceived differently in the two cultures. The rank order of several life events obtained in an earlier Hungarian study (Tringer and Veér, 1977) allowed us to make a chronological comparison. The correlation of the rank orders of the 32 common items used in the two Hungarian data sets almost 30 years apart was somewhat lower than the association of the present Hungarian rank orders and American ones of 1997. In addition, some life events were ranked quite differently in the two Hungarian studies. Thus, perception of significant life events might differ by culture and by time and this observation should be taken into account in the design of research projects and mainly in their evaluation.
在本研究中，我们呈现了184位照顾幼儿的匈牙利母亲所感知到的92项重大生活事件的生活变化单位（LCU）及质量排名顺序。为收集数据，我们使用了经过修改的匈牙利语版社会再适应评定问卷（米勒和拉赫，1997年）。与美国的研究结果一样，我们在样本中未发现人口统计学因素对这些事件的LCU及质量排名有显著影响。尽管1997年匈牙利和美国的LCU排名顺序显示出高度相关性，但63项共同项目的LCU平均值，匈牙利母亲的显著低于美国母亲。此外，两种文化对某些特定生活事件压力程度的感知有所不同。在匈牙利早期一项研究（特林格和韦尔，1977年）中获得的若干生活事件的排名顺序，使我们能够进行时间上的比较。相隔近30年的两个匈牙利数据集所使用的32项共同项目的排名顺序之间的相关性，略低于当前匈牙利排名顺序与1997年美国排名顺序之间的关联。此外，在两项匈牙利研究中，一些生活事件的排名差异颇大。因此，对重大生活事件的感知可能因文化和时间而异，在研究项目设计尤其是评估中应考虑到这一观察结果。
