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Finding Peer-Reviewed Research Articles for the Research Appraisal Assignment

Remember to narrow your search by:

  • Choosing Scholarly/Peer-reviewed Journals under the Show Only header.
  • Under Source Type, choose Articles
  • Adding participants as a search term can also help narrow it down to empirical articles.

Having trouble getting articles focused on your topic while searching? Try this activity:

Finding Instruments For the Research Methods Proposal

If you want to find an existing research instrument to use in your research, here's how to do it. The PsycInfo method guarantees you an instrument (but there may not be much on your topic), while HaPI might cover your topic but doesn't guarantee that the instrument is available. I’d recommend trying PsycInfo first, but then if that doesn’t have results for your topic, try HaPI.

Method 1: Use PsycInfo

  • Go to PsycInfo.
  • In the first search box put the topic you are interested in, and in the second box put the phrase TM Appended (this looks for a test/measure included as an appendix, reproduced as a figure in the text, or the items from the instrument are described in the methods section).
    PsycInfo search interface with a topic in the first search box and the phrase TM Appended in the second search box.
  • You might have to keep the topic pretty broad to get results.

Method 2: Use HaPI

  • Go to Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), which is a database devoted to identifying different behavioral measurement instruments.
  • Enter your topic in the first search box and then scroll down and choose Primary Source in the Source Code box.
    HaPI search interface with a topic entered in the first search box and Primary Source selected in the Source Code field further down the page.
  • Click on the title (not the PDF) of a result and scroll down to the Sample Items field, and look for the phrase “all items in this instrument are presented in the Source” (no way to add this to the search, unfortunately):
    Part of a search result record featuring the Sample Items field; the words "all items in this instrument are presented in the Source" are highlighted.
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