A researcher is studying how anxiety affects coping with chronic disease and theorizes that measures to reduce anxiety will improve subjects' ability to cope with day-to-day demands of self-care.In this example,anxiety and coping are
A) assumptions.
B) concepts.
C) philosophies.
D) theories.

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Concepts are terms that abstractly describe and name an object,idea,experience,or phenomenon and are defined in specific ways to present the ideas relevant to a theory.Assumptions are statements in a philosophy or theory that are taken for granted or considered to be true.Philosophies are rational intellectual explorations of truths or principles and describe viewpoints on what reality is and which ethical ideas should guide practice.Theories are sets of concepts that present a view of a phenomenon.

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