title: Perception of life stress events by older and younger women.
abstract: 24 women over 60 yr. and 24 younger women rated the severity of life stress events drawn from a pool of events occurring to elderly people. There were no over-all age differences, but rather strong agreement on which events were most threatening. There was some evidence, however, that the old rated 'severe' death events as less threatening than younger women.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008875:Middle Aged; D012803:Sick Role