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

What will be an ideal response?

An advantage of this approach is that it can uncover novel coping strategies that are not included on a checklist. However, the narrative approach, too, has its shortcomings. For example, unlike checklists that prompt one's memory about different coping strategies, narratives have no prompts and so coping strategies that are used may be forgotten. Folkman and Moskowitz (2004, p. 751) conclude, "there is no gold standard for the measurement of coping. The measurement of coping is probably as much art as it is science. The art comes in selecting the approach that is most appropriate and useful to the researcher's question.".