The Psychology Research Handbook

Frederick T. L. Leong, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology (Industrial/Organizational and Clinical Psychology Programs) and Psychiatry. He is also the Director of the Center for Multicultural Psychology Research at Michigan State University. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 journal articles and book chapters. In addition, he has edited or co-edited 12 books. Dr. Leong is a Fellow of the APA (Divisions 1, 2, 5, 12, 17, 29, 45, 52), Association for Psychological Science, Asian American Psychological Association, and the International Academy for Intercultural Research. His major research interests center around culture and mental health, cross-cultural psychotherapy (especially with Asians and Asian Americans), and cultural and personality factors related to career choice and work adjustment. He is past president of APA′s Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues), the Asian American Psychological Association, and the Division of Counseling Psychology in the International Association of Applied Psychologists. He has served on the APA Board of Scientific Affairs, the Minority Fellowship Program Advisory Committee, and the Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training (CEMRRAT2) Task Force. He received the Dalmas Taylor Distinguished Contributions Award from the APA Minority Fellowship Program and the Stanley Sue Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology from APA Division 12. He is also the 2007 co-recipient of the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology. 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.

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. McCready
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. DiLalla
Chapter 19: Qualitative Research in Psychology - Linda M. McMullen, 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