The Psychology Research Handbook: A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants

Introduce your psychology research assistants to the research process the fast and cost-effective way!

Are you a faculty member who′s been looking for a tool to effectively train research assistants without losing valuable research time?

Do you find yourself doing some of the basic components of a research project that could have been easily delegated to properly trained graduate students?

Faculty often face the dilemma of assigning work to students who have little or no experience in conducting a full-scale investigation. The Psychology Research Handbook helps solve this problem by providing a comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide for the beginning psychology researcher. Following the standard mode of research planning, design, data collection, statistical analysis, and results writing, individual chapters focus on integral tasks, including finding a topic, conducting literature searches, selecting instruments, designing surveys and questionnaires, sampling, applying for institutional approval, conducting mail and phone surveys, cleaning up a data set, using basic and advanced statistical analyses, doing qualitative analyses, and following the writing guidelines of the American Psychological Association. In addition, a special topics section gives advice on such issues as coordinating a research team, applying for grants, and using theory in research

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.