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