Results & Discussion - Lab Report Example

Download file to see previous pages This means that for the students, an increase level of forbearance accompanies decrease in stress level. Regression analysis confirms these results.
The table shows lack of a significant relationship between levels of acculturative stress and frequency of forbearance (p= 0.9822> 0.05, F= 0.0005). In addition, the observed relationship between the variables is negative, as the following table of coefficient shows.
The study sought to investigate the relationship between level of acculturated stress and forbearance level. A hypothesis that a significant positive relationship exist between the variables was proposed but results identify a negative relationship that is, however, not significant. Many factors could explain the difference in results from previous literature. The sampled students could have coped with their environment, as historical confound explain, to deviate from previously observed relationship between stress level and level of forbearance (Jackson, 2015). Numerous limitations of the study also explain the different results. Limited measures, such as omission of social support that could have been used in previous studies to determine level of forbearance could explain the difference. Measures of forbearance would be different from measures in other studies while measures of stress level would be the same to induce validity threat. In addition, the study used a small sample size and this undermines its external and internal validity. The small sample size could undermine internal validity due to participant bias, whose significance would be high, compared to significance of bias under a large sample size. In addition, a small sample size is less representative of the study’s population and this undermines generalizability. This means that the results could not be accurate for the population and could be invalid, compared to data from existing literature. The applied sampling design, ...Download file to see next pagesRead More