title: [Life events, risk factor or risk indicator?].
abstract: The english language literature relating life stressful events and mental disorders is twenty years old. A review of works published allows to draw the conclusion that there is a relevant link between these two parameters. Results of four studies, we have carried out, show that the significance of life events is more important than the volume of events in explaining the subject vulnerability as well as in predicting high risk.
mesh_terms: D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012306:Risk
vernacular_title: L'évènement, un facteur ou un marqueur de risque?