Chapter 4: Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting Mixed Research in the Field of Stress and Coping and Beyond

For years, stress and coping researchers have relied upon the quantitative paradigm (stemming from positivism and post-positivism) or the qualitative research paradigm (emerging from the work of the Chicago School) to frame their research studies (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005; Johnson, Onwue- gbuzie, & Turner, 2007). More recently, stress and coping researchers have begun to conduct studies that represent what is called mixed methods research or mixed research. Johnson and Onwuegbuzie (2004) define mixed research as:

With this alternative method to frame research studies, an increasing number of stress and coping researchers are conducting mixed research. However, two important missing elements for stress and coping researchers who are interested in utilizing mixed research techniques (that is available for quantitative studies and qualitative studies) are detailed information regarding (a) how to conduct a rigorous mixed research study and (b) how to write an effective mixed research report.