title: Rating reliability for life events and difficulties in the elderly.
abstract: The inter-rater reliability of Brown's measure of ongoing difficulties ('severity') is shown to be comparable with that of the measure of life events ('long-term threat') when using data from an elderly subject pool. Test-retest reliabilities for both the life event and difficulty measures are shown to be adequate if based on 'consensus' ratings. The question is raised of generalizability of the concepts of 'threat' and 'severity' across the lifespan.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics