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Psychological tests are also called mental measurements, psychological instruments, psychometric tests, questionnaires, inventories, and rating scales. They can be written, visual or verbal and measure a psychological variable (personality, intelligence, etc.) There are many commercially published tests that need to be purchased and tests that are designed by researchers for specific studies.
Most clinical tests are commercially published and have restricted access, available to registered psychologists and others in health and counseling fields - full access is often unavailable to students. Library resources provide descriptive and evaluative information about the tests themselves.
Detailed evaluations of over 3,000 modern testing instruments used in psychology, education, business, and leadership. This resource includes all past editions of the Mental Measurements Yearbook dating back to 1938, as well as Tests in Print, a comprehensive index of commercially available English-language tests currently in print. Compiled and maintained by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
Questions to guide the development of your research question:
Comprehensive index of international publications in psychology and related fields—including psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work—covering journal articles, book chapters, books, reports, theses, and dissertations from 1967 to the present. Compiled by the American Psychological Association.
Full-text psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association and its affiliates, available from their original publication dates (as early as 1894) to the present.
Full text of over 4,000 scholarly and professional psychology books published by the American Psychological Association, along with classic works from other publishers dating back to the 1600s. This collection includes all reference volumes from the APA Handbooks in Psychology Series and the comprehensive 8-volume APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Full text of the DSM-5, all prior editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, as well as journals, textbooks, clinical practice guidelines, self-assessment tools, and medication information materials published by the American Psychiatric Association.
Index of journal articles, books, reports, newsletters, and dissertations focused on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the psychological effects of traumatic experiences. Compiled by the National Center for PTSD, part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Comprehensive research platform that indexes high-quality, peer-reviewed journals across disciplines including science, social science, arts, and humanities. It offers powerful tools for citation analysis and enables users to track scholarly references from 1900 to the present.
The library's ScienceDirect journal package was cancelled for 2024, changes took effect on January 1, 2024. See the Post-cancellation access to Elsevier ScienceDirect articles guide for further details and options for obtaining articles from cancelled journals.
Full text data, as well as research, working, and conference papers, repository covering the applied, health, life, physical, and social sciences as well as humanities. Library licenses the Research Networks in Accounting, Entrepeneurship Research & Policy, and Legal Scholarship.
Search all 34 ProQuest databases licensed by the library at once or select particular databases to include in a search. Click on Databases from the ProQuest platform to view or change what's being searched.
Brainstorming keywords for your topic will help you refine your topic, find the most information about your topic and save you time by helping you search databases in a more efficient and systematic way. (Why? Different authors will refer to the same concept in different ways. Having a comprehensive list of keywords to search will help you find more information about your topic in an efficient and systematic way!)
1. Pick out the main ideas in your research question. For example, the main ideas in this research question are in bold: How is COVID-19 affecting mental health in university students?
2. Take each of your main ideas and brainstorm as many synonyms, related words, acronyms, initialisms, and spelling variants as you can. For example, for “university students”:
university students
college students
university campus
college campus
higher education
3. Do this for each of your main ideas. Searching all the variants you can come up with will give you a broader selection of relevant information. Consider making a chart to keep track of which combinations of keywords you have searched for.
4. Know that there is no such thing as a perfect search. Searching is a process, so having a list of potential keywords will help you begin your research. You’ll find that different combinations of keywords will bring up different results in different databases. You can still learn something from every search you perform, so know that this list of keywords can continue to grow throughout your research process.
You can also use what you learn from searching to redefine your research topic or question.
5. Several other specific search techniques can help you use your brainstormed keywords. Take a look at:
This consortium provides a comprehensive platform for accessing, preserving, and sharing social science data. Most datasets are available for download and analysis, while users can also upload their own data for long-term archiving and public sharing. A key feature is the ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature, an extensive index dating back to 1962. It includes over 80,000 citations of scholarly works that have utilized data from the archive—covering journal articles, books, book chapters, government and agency reports, working papers, dissertations, conference papers, and more.
Annual statistics on U.S. social, political, and economic conditions are available from the 2013 edition onward. Editions from 1878 to 2012 can be accessed through the U.S. Census Bureau website or via HeinOnline.
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