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The contextual threat of life events: the concept and its reliability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Christopher Tennant ,
Alan Smith ,
Paul Bebbington  and
Jane Hurry
Christopher Tennant*
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit and the Biometrics Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Alan Smith
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit and the Biometrics Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Paul Bebbington
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit and the Biometrics Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Jane Hurry
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit and the Biometrics Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Christopher Tennant, MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF.
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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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , August 1979 , pp. 525 - 528
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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