Resources for students
Futher resources
Additional readings
Some of the articles and books I have found most useful for my own research and my teaching are listed here. Keep an eye out for new editions of these titles; many are updated every few years. I have classified these according to different headings, but many cover a variety of topics. The titles that I highly recommend have an asterisk next to them.
Research design
Bowling, A. (1997). Research methods in health: Investigating health and health services. Buckingham: Open University Press.
*Boyce, J. (2003). Market research in practice. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
*Cone, J., & Foster, S.(1993). Dissertations and theses from start to finish. Washington: American Psychological Association.
Goodwin, C. J. (2007). Research in psychology: Methods and design (5th edn). New York: John Wiley.
Polgar, S., Thomas, S.A. (2000). Introduction to research in the health sciences (4th edn). Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Stangor, C. (2006). Research methods for the behavioral sciences (3rd edn). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Questionnaire design
*De Vaus, D.A. (2002). Surveys in social research (5th edn). Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin.
Scale selection and construction
Dawis, R. V. (1987). Scale construction. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 34, 481-489.
DeVellis, R. F. (2003). Scale development: Theory and applications (2nd edn).
Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.
Gable, R. K., & Wolf, M. B. (1993). Instrument development in the affective domain: Measuring attitudes and values in corporate and school settings. Boston: Kluner Academic.
Kline, P. (1986). A handbook of test construction. New York: Methuen.
Robinson, J. P., Shaver, P. R., & Wrightsman, L. S. (Eds.). Measures of personality and
social psychological attitudes. Hillsdale, NJ: Academic Press.
*Streiner, D. L., & Norman, G. R. (2003). Health measurement scales: A practical guide
to their development and use (3rd edn). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Basic statistics
Cooper, D. R., & Schindler, P. S. (2003). Business research methods (8th edn). Boston:
McGraw-Hill.
Everitt, B. S. (1996). Making sense of statistics in psychology: A second level course.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
*Gravetter, F. J., & Wallnau, L. B. (2007). Statistics for the behavioral sciences (7th edn).
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Norman, G. R., & Streiner, D. L. (2000). Biostatistics: The bare essentials (2nd edn).
Hamilton: B.C. Decker Inc.
Pagano, R. R. (1998). Understanding statistics in the behavioral sciences (5th edn).
Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
*Peat, J. (2001). Health science research: A handbook of quantitative methods. Sydney:
Allen & Unwin.
Raymondo, J. C. (1999). Statistical analysis in the behavioral sciences. Boston:
McGraw- Hill College.
Runyon, R. P., Coleman, K. A., & Pittenger, D. J. (2000). Fundamentals of Behavioral
Statistics (9th edn). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Smithson, M. (2000). Statistics with confidence. London: Sage.
Advanced statistics
Hair, J. F., Tatham, R. L., Anderson, R. E., & Black, W. C. (2005). Multivariate data
analysis (6th edn). New York: Prentice Hall.
Stevens, J. (1996). Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences (3rd edn).
Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
*Tabachnick, B. G., & Fidell, L. S. (2007). Using multivariate statistics (5th edn). Boston:
Pearson Education.
Preparing your report
American Psychological Association (2001). Publication Manual (5th edn). Washington:
American Psychological Association.
Thomas, S.A. (2000). How to write health sciences papers, dissertations and theses.
Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
McInerney, D.M. (2001). Publishing your psychology research. Crows Nest: Allen &
Unwin.
Useful web links
In addition to the more traditional paper-based resources, there are many websites you may find useful. There has been an explosion in the number of statistics sites on the Web—some statistics texts are completely web-based. I have listed some useful starting points for you below. These sites also have links to many other potentially useful sites.
http://www.psychstat.missouristate.edu/
This site contains a number of online statistics books (with SPSS screen grabs and output) written by David Stockburger. These include a basic introductory statistics book, and one that covers multivariate statistics. The site also gives a list of other useful websites, covering statistics relevant to a wide range of different disciplines (psychology, sociology, business, sport, biology etc.). These additional sites are listed at: http://www.psychstat.missouristate.edu/scripts/dws148f/statisticsresourcesmain.asp
http://www.davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html
This is another online statistics book, which also gives additional sites that you may wish to investigate.
Computer program for Parallel Analysis (used as part of Chapter 15 Factor Analysis)
In Chapter 15 of the SPSS Survival Manual I illustrated the use of parallel analysis, a relatively new technique used to determine the number of factors to be retained. The program that you need to do this can be downloaded by clicking on the following link. This will download a zipped file that you can open on your computer.
If you would like to go to the developer’s website their address is shown below. There are a number of other downloadable (free) computer programs.
Web site address for Parallel Analysis program:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/mww10/Watkins3.html
