PSY 4105 Adv. Research Methods: Personality and Preferences

Your research project calls for identifying "a research question that could be tested."  For the final paper, you'll need to "test a specified number of participants."

How will you know what to use to test your hypothesis?  

Using tests and measures already created can give you a  place to get started.  Many can be reused for educational and research purposes.  

Still can't find information about your test/measure?

• Search SPU Primo (measure may be in an appendix)
• Search the internet under the specific scale title
• Consult SPU Psychology faculty

Use these databases to find information about a test or measure, such as reliability, validity, how it has been used, and occasionally the instrument itself.

• Search PsycINFO...
  • by topic (e.g. vocation)
    • search for your topic, then view Tests & Measures limiter on the left of the search results
  • by measure title or acronym (e.g. “calling and vocation questionnaire”)
    • TM Tests and Measures field: locates all mentions of the instrument in Tests and Measures field (broad); use keyword “appended” to see if full-text is included
    • Select a Field: searches within Title, Translated Title, Classification Codes, Abstract, Keyword, Subjects, and Author (broad)
    • SU Subjects/DE Subjects: locates articles about measure as a topic (narrow)

Watch the tutorial below for an example of searching for tests and measures in APA PsycInfo (4:53)

This is not a comprehensive list of resources available online or on the Index Tables (Library Main Level). See this list for more titles.