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20 - Cardiovascular Measures for Social and Behavioral Research

from Part V - Physiological Measures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

By
Mary G. Carey
Edited by
John E. Edlund  and
Austin Lee Nichols
John E. Edlund
Affiliation:
Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
Austin Lee Nichols
Affiliation:
Central European University, Vienna
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Summary

Cardiovascular measures for social and behavioral research have been historically popular because they are often non-invasive, inexpensive, and capture the dynamic nature of cardiac physiology. Among adults, many measures are static, like height – they do not change over time – but importantly, cardiovascular measures change moment-to-moment. For example, measuring the heart rate is easy and valuable for documenting different health conditions and can be predictive of overall longevity and disease. Electronic medical records provide access to retrospective high-quality cardiac measures; plus, now that consumer wearable devices are ubiquitous, it is even easier to prospectively collect cardiovascular measures that are continuous and automatically obtained. Thus, cardiovascular measures are important metrics of overall health, and their dynamic nature is important to capture with both established and novel scientific instruments. This chapter will focus on physiological measures that validate psychometric data, describe types of cardiovascular measures of health, and present future directions of cardiovascular measures in research.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods and Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Volume 2: Performing Research
 , pp. 455 - 474
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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