Do Perceived Loss, Rejection, Physical Threat, and Uncontrollability Differentiate Interpersonal from Non-Interpersonal Life Events or Relate to Event Severity in Emerging Adults?

Interpersonal events are salient for internalizing, but what distinguishes them from non-interpersonal events? In 128 emerging adults, using self-ratings and researcher-ratings of text-based event descriptions, perceptual variables were linked to event type as expected, but no pattern of specificity by event type emerged in correlations of perceptions and severity.