SCORING:  Select point values to view your score. 

•  If your score is 300 or more, you stand an almost 80 percent change of getting sick in the near future as a result of the events. 
•  If your score is 150 to 299, the chances are about 50 percent. 
•  Less than 150, about 30 percent. 

 This scale suggests that change in one’s life requires an effort to adapt and then to regain stability.  This process probably saps energy the body would ordinarily use to maintain itself, so susceptibility to illness increases.  Reprinted with permission from the Journal of Psychosomatic Research (vol. II) by Thomas H. Holmes and Richard R. Rahe (PergamonPress, 1967).