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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The book that established itself as a standard text and reference work for students seeking to master research methods and procedures in psychology has been updated and revised in this new edition! The Second Edition of The Psycho Zusammenfassung An easy-to-understand guide to the research process! this book equips students and research assistants to conduct a full-scale investigation. It follows the standard mode of research planning and design! data collection and analysis! and results writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Anthony Marsella Acknowledgments Introduction - James T. Austin, Frederick T. L. PART I. RESEARCH PLANNING Research as a script - Douglas A. Hershey, Joy M. Jacobs-Lawson, Thomas L. Wilson Finding a research topic - Frederick T. L. Leong, Douglas J. Muccio Bibliographic research - Jeffrey Reed, Pam Baxter Reviewing and evaluating a research article - Kathryn Oleson, Robert Arkin Program evaluation: Concepts and Perspectives - James Altschuld, James Austin PART II. DESIGN, INSTRUMENT SELECTION OR DEVELOPMENT, & SAMPLING Designing a research study - Bruce Wampold Evaluating and selecting psychological measures for research purposes - Madonna Constantine, Joseph Ponterotto Designing surveys and questionnaires for research - Robert Goddard, Peter Villanova Scale development - John Lounsbury, Lucy Gibson, Rich Saudargas Applying sampling procedures - William McCready Statistical power - Brett Myors PART III. DATA C...
