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Background
: It is important to analyze the stress amount and content of life event according to family life cycle through the recent experience of life event in family practice, because it need to predict disease and understand the relationship among the family members. This study was attempted to establish data base for health promotion and disease management and assist perform the comprehensive and continuous care of the family practice.

Methods : The data were collected from married adult 486 of the above 20 age, from July to September, in 1992. Family life cycle by Duvall and S.R.R.S. by T.H. Holmes and R.H. Rahe was selected and analyzed the stress amount in terms of their recent experience of 43 kinds of life events and induced the 6 life event in the order of frequency, according to family life cycle.

Results : The result were summarized as follows
1. According to increase the family life cycle, mean stress amount was tending to decrease.
2. First 5 life events by frequency about 486 subjects were vacation(35.2%), christmas(28.2%), major change in argument with spouse(22.8%), minor violation of the law(18.7%), change in residence(17.5%).
3. Mean stress amount by abnormal life event associated with family life cycle was higher in diseased group rather than non-diseased group

Conclusion : There were some significant difference in mean stress amount and content of life event according to family life cycle. these finding have implication for the comprehensive and continuous care of the family practice.
It is important to calculate the stress amount in transitional zone. But this study was not noted the finding in transitional zone. Therefore further study in tansitional zone will be needed.