The relationship between stressful life events and adolescents' employment was studied using Coddington's Social Readjustment Rating Questionnaire for Adolescents. The amount of stress reported by those 52 health care and industrial work-study occupational programs was significantly greater than that of 31 unemployed students and 43 students in other work-study programs. The results are compared with data from previous studies of adolescent normal and psychiatric patients. Frequency of occurrence and positive and negative connotations of the life events are also discussed.
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