The Advantages...
- He was one of the first to make a link between chronic stress and illness
- He also demonstrated how stress could could physical illness, not just psychological illness.
The Disadvantages...
- It generalises people and assumes we will all respond the same to a stressor, and that every stressor will evoke the same response. However, this is not true, we would not respond the same to a fly as we would to a tiger.
- Individual interpretation- for some people divorce is positive, for others it is negative and for others it is amicable. We do not all respond the same.
- The research was initially conducted on rats therefore it may not be transferable to human behaviour.
- The research is outdated, conducted in 1956.
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