Impact of Event Scale: A Measure of Subjective Stress

@article{Horowitz1979ImpactOE,
  title={Impact of Event Scale: A Measure of Subjective Stress},
  author={Mardi Jon Horowitz and Nancy Wilner and William F. Alvarez},
  journal={Psychosomatic Medicine},
  year={1979},
  volume={41},
  pages={209–218}
}
&NA; Clinical, field, and experimental studies of response to potentially stressful life events give concordant findings: there is a general human tendency to undergo episodes of intrusive thinking and periods of avoidance. A scale of current subjective distress, related to a specific event, was based on a list of items composed of commonly reported experiences of intrusion and avoidance. Responses of 66 persons admitted to an outpatient clinic for the treatment of stress response syndromes… 
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