Frederick Leong & James Austin 
The Psychology Research Handbook [EPUB ebook] 
A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants

In the Third Edition of
The Psychology Research Handbook editors Frederick T. L. Leong and James T. Austin have assembled experienced expert researchers to provide graduate students and research assistants with a comprehensive framework for conducting many types of psychology research. The book is organized around the idea of a ‘research script, ‘ following the step-by-step process of research planning, design, data collection, analysis, and disseminating research. Many chapters are coauthored by advanced graduate students to give their fellow students a sense of real-world research, adding to the clarity and practicality of many chapters. Students and instructors alike will appreciate chapters on topics typically missing from introductory methods texts, including applying for research grants, dealing with journal editors and reviewers, working within research teams, and conducting cross-cultural research. Structures such as recommended readings and exercises guide students to develop and expand their research skills. New chapters include Power and Evidence, IRB as Critical Collaborators in Research, Alternative Data Collection Strategies, Structural Equation Modeling and Replicability and Reproducibility. A comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to the entire research process, this book quickly and efficiently equips advanced students and research assistants to conduct a full research project.

Table des matières

PART I: RESEARCH PLANNING

Chapter 1: Introduction – Frederick T. L. Leong, James T. Austin

Chapter 2: The Research Process as a Script – Douglas A. Hershey, Joy M. Jacobs-Lawson, Thomas L. Wilson

Chapter 3: Finding a Research Topic – Frederick T. L. Leong, Ross I. Walker

Chapter 4: Bibliographic Research – Jeffrey G. Reed, Pam M. Baxter, Ciara K. Kidder

Chapter 5: Reviewing and Evaluating a Research Article – Kathryn C. Oleson, Sonia A. Swanson

Chapter 6: Program Evaluation: Concepts and Perspectives – James W. Altschuld, Traci L. Lepicki

PART II. DESIGN, INSTRUMENT SELECTION OR DEVELOPMENT, AND SAMPLING

Chapter 7: Designing a Research Study – Siddharth Chandra, Madhur Chandra

Chapter 8: Evaluating and Selecting Psychological Measures for Research Purposes – P. Priscilla Lui

Chapter 9: Designing Surveys and Questionnaires for Research – Daniel Villanova, Peter Villanova

Chapter 10: Scale Development – Howard E. A. Tinsley, John W. Lounsbury

Chapter 11: Applying Sampling Procedures – Allyson Holbrook, William C. Mc Cready

Chapter 12: Power and Evidence – Meng-Ting Lo, Nivedita Bhaktha, Susie Mauck, Ann A. O′Connell

Chapter 13: IRB as Critical Collaborators in Research – Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez, Alejandro L. Vázquez, Nicole Vouvalis

PART III. DATA COLLECTION

Chapter 14: Conducting Mail and Digital Surveys – Sofia Pinero Kluch, Chad S. Briggs, Alan Vaux

Chapter 15: Conducting Telephone Surveys – Yueng-hsiang Huang, Jin Lee

Chapter 16: Collecting Data in Groups – Stephen J. Zaccaro, Lauren N. P. Campbell

Chapter 17: Alternative Data Collection Strategies – Erin Stupica, Brandi Stupica, Neil Christiansen

Chapter 18: Cleaning up Data and Running Preliminary Analyses – Karla K. Fehr, Stephen J. Dollinger, David L. Di Lalla

Chapter 19: Qualitative Research in Psychology – Linda M. Mc Mullen, Frederick J. Wertz

PART IV. DATA ANALYSIS

Chapter 20: Statistical Research and Discovery: Planning and Selecting Statistical Analysis – Charles A. Scherbaum, Kristen M. Shockley

Chapter 21: Basic Statistical Analyses – David N. Dickter

Chapter 22: Using Advanced Statistics – Lisa A. Steelman, Zhiqing E. Zhou

Chapter 23: The Essence and Application of Structural Equation Modeling – Barbara M. Byrne

Chapter 24: Conducting a Meta-Analysis – Frederick L. Oswald, Felix Y. Wu, Yaojia R. Chen

Chapter 25: Archival Data Sets: Revisiting Issues and Considerations – Barbara H. Zaitzow, Matthew B. Robinson

PART V. RESEARCH WRITING

Chapter 26: Writing in APA Style: Why and How – Robert F. Calderón, William N. Haller

Chapter 27: Writing Rough Drafts – Edward C. Chang, Claire J. Shimshock, Christopher Peterson

Chapter 28: Revising a Research Manuscript – Donna K. Nagata, Steven J. Trierweiler, Jacqueline H. J. Kim

Chapter 29: Dealing with Journal Editors and Reviewers – Samuel H. Osipow, Mark M. Leach

PART VI. SPECIAL TOPICS

Chapter 30: Becoming Part of a Large and Successful Research Team – Patrick S. Ledwidge, Caitlin J. Masterson, Andrea M. Meinders, Dennis L. Molfese

Chapter 31: Multilevel Research – David Chan

Chapter 32: Computational Modeling – Michael J. Zickar, Feng Guo

Chapter 33: Applying for Research Grants – Jen Burke Lefever, John G. Borkowski, Kimberly H. Robinson

Chapter 34: Cross-Cultural Research Methodology – David Matsumoto, Hyisung C. Hwang, Kwok Leung, Fons J. R. Van de Vijverh

Chapter 35: Replicability and Reproducibility in Psychology – Victor N. Keller, Joseph Cesario

Chapter 36: Applying Theories to Research: The Interplay of Theory and Research in Science – Charles J. Gelso, Alexandra E. Savela

Chapter 37: The Research Script: One Researcher′s View – Richard E. Petty

A propos de l’auteur

James T. Austin (Ph.D., Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Virginia Tech University, 1987) is a Research Specialist 2 at The Ohio State University, specializing in the psychometrics of test creation and evaluation for Career-Technical Education at the secondary and community college levels. He served as Assistant Professor of I-O Psychology from 1991-1997 at Ohio State. His research on goal-setting, criterion measurement, and research methodology has appeared in Psychological Bulletin, Annual Review of Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decisions Processes. He is currently cowriting a book on analysis and prioritization of needs assessment data in program evaluation.