Guide to Reading Research Like a Pro It’s 11:00 PM. You have a term paper due in 48 hours. Sitting on your desk (or cluttering your browser tabs) is a stack of twenty academic journals. You pick one up, read the title—which seems to be written in a foreign language—and glance at the abstract. Suddenly, …
Mastering the Psychology Literature Review: A Guide to Synthesizing Science Without the Burnout You are sitting at your desk, a cold cup of coffee to your right, and twenty-five different browser tabs open on your laptop. You’re staring at a cursor that refuses to move. You have a pile of research papers on “Cognitive Behavioral …
Beyond Sci-Hub: A Psychologist’s Guide to Accessing Research Papers You are deep in the flow of a literature review. You’ve found the perfect title on Google Scholar—a study that seems to hold the missing puzzle piece for your thesis or a specific client intervention. You click the link, eager to devour the methodology, only to …
Method vs. Methodology: The Blueprint for Psychological Research Success Picture this: It’s 2:00 AM. You are staring at the glow of your laptop screen, your third cup of coffee growing cold beside you. You are writing the most daunting chapter of your psychology thesis—Chapter 3. You type the heading “Research Methodology.” Then you pause. Wait, …
Are You a Visual Thinker? Understanding the Power of Perceptual Reasoning Let me ask you a question: what’s harder, reading and summarizing a dense, 400-page non-fiction book, or completing a 1,000-piece puzzle of a clear blue sky? For many of us, the answer seems obvious. Our culture, and especially our education system, has trained us …
Mini Marker Personality Inventory The Mini Marker Personality Inventory translated by Manzoor (2000) will be used in the current research. The questionnaire consisted of five personality types including openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The scale consist of 40 items and it is five point likert scale. Response categories ranges from 1 to …
The Psychology of ‘Publish or Perish’: Why Your Journal Strategy Is Hurting Your Mental Health Let’s talk about “Maria.” Maria is a fourth-year clinical psychology PhD candidate, staring at her laptop screen at 11 PM. She just received her third rejection email for a manuscript she spent six months on. The feedback from Reviewer #2 …
Emotional Regulation Scale Emotional regulation Scale developed by Sawar (1997) will be used to measure emotional regulation in the current research. The scale is comprised of 58 items. It is a 4-point rating scale. Response categories ranges from 1=not at all true to 4=exactly true. Alpha reliability of the scale is .91.
Emotional Expressivity Scale Emotional Expressivity Scale developed by Kring, Smith and Neale (1994) will be used to measure emotional expressivity in the current research. The scale is used to measure individual differences in out-ward display of emotion. It consisted of 17 items and is 6-point Likert type scale. Responses from never true=1 to always true=6. …
Emotional Empathy Scale The scale developed by Ashraf (2004) will be used in the present research to identify emotionally empathic and non–empathic adolescents. The scale consists of 26 items in the form of 5 point Likert type scale, and is a self-report measure of the tendency to experience vicariously the (positive and negative) emotional experiences …