Contents

List of contributors

1 Introduction to Advanced Research Methods for Applied Psychologists

PAULA BROUGH

Section 1 Getting Started

2 Designing impactful research

PAULA BROUGH AND AMY HAWKES

3 Research sampling: a pragmatic approach

ANDREW ROBERTSON AND CHRIS G. SIBLEY

4 Research ethics for human research and legal issues

GARY ALLEN AND OLAV MUURLINK

5 Instrumentation

STEPHEN A. WOODS

Section 2 Data collection

6 Systematic reviews

DAVID GOUGH AND MICHELLE RICHARDSON

7 Research using archival data

GWENITH G. FISHER AND DOREY S. CHAFFEE

8 Overview of qualitative methods

OLAV MUURLINK

9 Interviews, focus groups, and Delphi techniques

JENNIFER BROWN

10 Experimental and quasi-experimental designs: Verities & Balderdash: designating designs to discern the difference

WILLIAM H. YEATON

11 Surveys and web research

DANIELLE R. WALD, BRADLEY E. GRAY, AND ERIN M. EATOUGH

12 Assessing cognitive processes

JOHN O’GORMAN, DAVID SHUM, AND CANDICE BOWMAN

13 Longitudinal data collection

CHRISTIAN DORMANN AND CHRISTINA GUTHIER

14 Diary studies, event sampling, and smartphone apps

JOEL M. HEKTNER

15 Organisational interventions

AMANDA BIGGS

Section 3 The nitty gritty: data analysis

16 Managing missing data: concepts, theories, and methods

RACHEL DAVIS, STEFANO OCCHIPINTI, AND LIZ JONES

17 Data preparation

STEFANO OCCHIPINTI AND CALEY TAPP

18 Content analysis and thematic analysis

KIMBERLY A. NEUENDORF

19 ‘Real’ analyses

CARLO TRAMONTANO AND ROBERTA FIDA

20 Mediation analysis and conditional process models

JOSHUA L. HOWARD, PATRICK D. DUNLOP, AND MICHAEL J. ZYPHUR

21 Structural equation modelling

YANYUN YANG

22 Multilevel analyses

DUYGU BIRICIK GULSEREN AND E. KEVIN KELLOWAY

23 Social network analysis

ALAN SLOANE AND SEAMUS O’REILLY

Section 4 Research dissemination

24 Publishing your research

CRAIG MCGARTY AND ZOE C. WALTER

25 Producing an academic thesis and an organisational report

TONI FOWLIE, MAREE ROCHE, AND MICHAEL O’DRISCOLL

Index