Some Researchers Use Narrative Approaches in Which Participants Identify a Stressor

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Essay

Some researchers use narrative approaches in which participants identify a stressor and then give an account of how they coped with the stressor. Discuss the advantage(s)and disadvantage(s)of this approach.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A variety of values, extracted from sample data, presumed to envelop the value of an unascertained population characteristic.

Mean Score

The average score obtained by adding all the individual scores in a set and dividing by the total number of scores.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the sample data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.

Standard Deviation

Indicates the dispersion or variability within a set of numerical values around their average.