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Doing & Applying Research

Doing & Applying Research. Agenda . What to research for the Assignment A Good Research Database: PsycInfo. What to research for Assignment 1. leadership performance. Skill. Measurement. Definition. What to research for Assignment 2: Factors that affect your chosen skill.

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Doing & Applying Research

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  1. Doing & Applying Research

  2. Agenda • What to research for the Assignment • A Good Research Database: PsycInfo

  3. What to research for Assignment 1 leadership performance Skill Measurement Definition

  4. What to research for Assignment 2: Factors that affect your chosen skill Active listening Behaviors Conflict resolution skills Emotional Stability (anger sub-dimension) Biological Factors (e.g., Hormonal shifts)

  5. Find a changeable ‘factor’ that affects your skill Find a program on how to “train” on that factor Active listening Behaviors Conflict resolution skills Emotional Stability (anger sub-dimension) Biological Factors (e.g., Hormonal shifts)

  6. Agenda • What to research for the Assignment • PsycInfo • Using the option dropdown • Using the thesaurus • Using other search options

  7. Screen when logged into PsycInfo

  8. Using the Option Dropdown • For search by author, year, or subject heading

  9. How to find the article with the measures you completed

  10. Explore what’s in the Abstract • ‘Abstract’ – • most efficient way to decide relevance of article for your assignment • ‘Subject’ • useful to explore other potentially relevant keywords • Identifier

  11. Students experiment with search page • Find an article given year and author information • Barling, Weber, Kelloway, 1996 • Note: remember to specify as author in the option setting

  12. Open the Barling et al 1996 article • What’s in the method section? • What’s in the result section?

  13. Go back to exploring the abstract of the Barling et al 1996 article • Who do THEY cite? • In the article • Who cites them? • In the database • What topics are related to their articles? • Useful to find ‘other’ factors affecting your skill

  14. Who do THEY cite in the article? Who cites them In the database? What related articles overlap

  15. Search for articles about training your skill • Starting with articles you already found • Use the subject identifiers mentioned there • Type your term in the search page • But use correct subject identifier • E.g., self-monitoring vs. self monitoring • Using the thesaurus page to get correct subject identifier

  16. Why use the Thesaurus • Useful to align your search words with keywords that PsycINFO uses in the database

  17. Options when using the Thesaurus • Contain word(s) - great if you’re not sure what the terms used are (e.g., attitudes toward authority comes up with 0 hits) • Begins with – beneficial if you are more certain about your search words

  18. Screen after typing ”Training” in Thesaurus • Click on the subject headings with [+] to show more related subject terms

  19. Screen after typing ”conflict resolution” in Thesaurus • Click on the yellow sticky to see related terms • Explode • Major

  20. Exploring the results of your search in Thesaurus to get more Technical Terms • click on “training (motivation)”to get more specific search terms

  21. Check off all Relevant keywords to describe topic and use OR & click “add to search”

  22. See what happens in the search window!

  23. Students do the same for own topic • Generate a list of technical terms relevant to your topic • Use the PsycInfo worksheet to help organize your keywords/lay terms

  24. Other ways of identifying Useful Technical Terms/Subject Headings with Thesaurus • Recall, we chose the “Begins With” display option before • This gives us related subject headings organized alphabetically • Try using alternative “display options" to display results in a different way. • Contains – Any subject headings which contain the search words

  25. Students: Practice using Thesaurus • Use the thesaurus to identify useful subject headings for your practice topic • Familiarize yourself with the thesaurus option • EXPLORE!!!

  26. OtherSearch Options – I • Methodology: • Open to using any • ‘Literature review’ would probably be most useful both for understanding the research in the topic and for finding relevant articles (look at the citations list)

  27. Other Search Options – II • Feel free to play around with ‘age groups’, ‘target audience’ if you feel e.g. that studies on children can be applicable to your own personal growth

  28. Other Tips • Go back to the articles mentioned in the questionnaire • Look up the citations from the paper to find relevant articles

  29. Other tips & options • ‘Cite’ button automatically cites articles for you in the citation style of your choice

  30. Extra Help • Library guide for MGHC02: http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/MGHC02 • PsycInfo RA Help • Availability in the finance lab – Tuesdays 3-5pm on the following days: • February 4th, 11th March 11th18th 25th & April 1st • Availability for Skype chat – Fridays by appointment • Skype ID: karen.young39 • Email: karenyoung21@gmail.com

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