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Advanced Psychology Research Guide

Advanced Research Processes and Sources in Psychology

American Psychological Association Advice

Choose your research methods wiselyExperts offer tips on balancing ambition and realism in your research design

Identify and Justify Your Research Methodologies and Populations

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Identify methodologies and populations:

1. Search for your research area

2. In the sidebar to the right of the list of search hits click the arrow beside the following headings:

  • Age, a list of the age groups studied in your research area (with the number of articles using each age group in parentheses)
  • Gender, as list of the genders studied in your research area (with the number of articles using each gender in parentheses)
  • Methodology, a list of the methodologies used in your research area (with the number of articles using each methodology in parentheses)
  • Population, a list of the populations used in your research area (with the number of articles using each population in parentheses)

Find justification for your methodologies and populations:

1. Check the box(es) beside the age/gender/methodology/population which you want to study to focus your list of search hits to research articles which use that age/gender/methodology/population

2. Use those research articles, and how they were used in your research area, in your thesis proposal as justification for your research design

CINAHL:

1. Search for your research area

2. In the sidebar to the right of the list of search hits click the arrow beside the following headings:

  • Age, a list of the age groups studied in your research area (with the number of articles using each age group in parentheses)
  • Gender, as list of the genders studied in your research area (with the number of articles using each gender in parentheses)

Find justification for your methodologies and populations:

1. Check the box(es) beside the age/gender which you want to study to focus your list of search hits to research articles which use that age/gender

2. Use those research articles, and how they were used in your research area, in your thesis proposal as justification for your research design

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