Associate Professor Co-Edits Book on Applying Mixed Methods Approaches to Stress, Coping Research

Kathleen Collins, University of Arkansas associate professor of special education, co-edited a book that offers guidance to researchers about the application of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of stress and coping.

Titled Toward a Broader Understanding of Stress and Coping: Mixed Methods Approaches, the book is part of a series, (Research on Stress and Coping in Education, Volume 5), published by Information Age Publishing. Co-editors are Anthony J. Onweugbuzie of Sam Houston State University and Qun G. Jiao of City University of New York.

The book is intended not only for stress and coping researchers, but also for social and behavioral science researchers at various levels, students, instructors and advisors as well as applied researchers, research methodologists, and theorists. The 15 chapters are divided into three sections. Section I focuses on conceptual and theoretical mixed methods research perspectives. Section II addresses mixed methodological perspectives as applied to topics relevant to stress and coping. Section III presents five empirical studies of mixed methods research as applied to the field of stress and coping.

More information is available at the Information Age Publishing Web site.

Collins formerly served as chair (2009-2010) of the Mixed Methods Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Earlier this year, she was named Outstanding Reviewer by AERA for her role as reviewer for Educational Researcher, one of the association's research journals. Collins' research interests are in methodological issues as they pertain to mixed methods research, special populations, and the identification and assessment of literacy problems of post-secondary students.