APA 2180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Grounded Theory, Blood Vessel
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Most stress 43% increased risk of dying, only those who believed stress is harmful for your health. Those who experienced stress but did not believe it was harmful had the smallest risk of dying. Changing percepion of stress social stress test. Making it look like audience were judging you. Those who believe stress is helping your body prepare for acion had less blood vessel constricion. Grown drasically in the past 15 years. A methodology for conducing research that involves collecing, analyzing, and integraing (or mixing) quanitaive and qualitaive research and data in a single study or a longitudinal program of inquiry. United by a commitment to improving the human condiion, disseminaing knowledge and a shared commitment for rigor. Complexiies of most public health problems require use of a broad spectrum of qualitaive and quanitaive methods. Researchers should not be preoccupied with the quanitaive-qualitaive debate impossible to resolve. Credibility (both approaches enhance integrity of indings of the other)