Finding Psychological Measures/Scales and Manipulations

*updated extensively 8/2007


(Note: This website is intended as a resource for undergraduate students and is a collection of possible sources for the user to track down. Please do not email the Psychology Department at Muhlenberg for assistance with any of these measures, we don't know any more than what is listed. Also, check for copyright/use permissions for all scales, especially if you publish or present your work.)

The first place to start when looking for a way to measure a particular construct is with PSYCHINFO. If you can't seem to zero in on what you want in PSYCHINFO, this list of resources might be able to help. Some of the listings are web links to the scale itself, and others are authors, keywords, or citations you can plug into PSYCHINFO to try to get what you need.

This is not an exhaustive list, but instead an eclectic list informed by resources various psychology faculty and students have stumbled across. You also want to check with your research advisor, as he or she may have their own "catalog" of scales. The best way to use this site is to go to the "Edit" and "Find" feature in your browser. Try searching a variety of terms.  If you can't find the specific measure you are looking for on this page, be sure to check out the general resources listed just below. If all of those efforts fail you, check out the advice at the bottom of this webpage.

Please help update and add to this list. Email wolfe@muhlenberg.edu with revisions (e.g., broken links) or additions.
 


GENERAL RESOURCES

(Switch to a search for specific constructs)


BOOKS

WEB RESOURCES

 

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An excellent resource! Online compendium of free, public-domain psychometric instruments. Some of the instruments, marked with an asterisk (*) are available in other languages besides English. http://www.hs.ttu.edu/research/reifman/qic.htm

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http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/studies.htm 

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Psychonomic Society Archive of Norms, Stimuli, and Data http://www.psychonomic.org/archive

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Here is a database of many psychological scales: http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~psyctest/


SEARCH FOR SPECIFIC CONSTRUCTS


This is not a comprehensive list of sources on any of the topics or constructs mentioned. This is an eclectic list composed of resources some students and faculty have come across in their own research. Contact wolfe@muhlenberg.edu if you find revisions (e.g., broken link) or additions to the list.


A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

 

 


 

Academic Self-Efficacy
 

 

 

Achieving Styles

 


Acculturation Measures

see also Multicultural measures

see also Racial Identity

 

 

 

 

Affiliation

 

 

Agentic (vs. communal) orientation

see Individualism vs. Collectivism

 

 

 

 

Aggression & Assertiveness

Alcohol Related Issues


 

Ambiguity

 

see Uncertainty

 

 

 

 

Anagrams
 

Anagrams for use as stimulus materials

Anxiety

To see a preview copy of the scale try any of the below:

Math/Computer Anxiety

Social anxiety

see also Psychological Well-being

 

 

 

Approach-Avoidance
 


Attitudes Toward Women Scale

 

 

Attachment (Relationship) Styles

Attachment Threat/Challenge manipulations

 

Attractiveness

 

see Physical Attractiveness

 

 

 



 

Belonging (e.g., need to belong)

 

 

Belief in a Just World

 

see Just World Hypothesis
 

 

 

Body Image

Bogus feedback manipulations

Remote Associates Test

Other bogus feedback ideas...

see also Racism

 

 






Cheating Manipulations

see also Games




Child-parent relationships

see Parent-Child




Cognitive Load (Manipulations)

Web-based "remember a number" cognitive load tricks:

 

Collectivism

 

see Individualism vs. Collectivism

 

 

 

Commitment (general attitude, fear of)

Other more general sources that were suggested:

 

Communal

 

see Individualism vs. Collectivism

 

 

 

 

Competition (Competitiveness & related constructs)

 

 

Computer Anxiety

 

see Anxiety

 

 

 

 

Conformity

 

 

Conscience

 

 

Control (need for)

see also Locus of Control

 

 

 

Cooperation

see also Competition

 

 

 

Cortisol Samples

 

Culture (openness to)

 

see Openness

 

 

 

Cynicism

Organizational Cynicism:

 

 




Depression

see also Psychological Well-being


 

 

Doctors (Attitudes of)
 

 





Egalitarianism
 

General

 

"Chronic" Egalitarianism

 

 


Emotion
 

Stimuli to provoke emotions

See also:

Measures of Emotion - Implicit, Physiological or Indirect

Reference Readings

Measures of Emotion - Explicit

Emotional Intelligence

Some primary references on emotional intelligence are:

 

Empathy

 


E
thnic Identity

 

see multicultural measures

 





Faces/People

Photographs of people to use as study stimuli

Software to create/change the appearance of faces.

 

Fraternities

-see sororities and fraternities

 

 

 

 


 

Games (on-line, for use in various manipulations)

 

 

Group Performance Manipulations

 

 

 

Gender - Attitudes Toward Women Scale

 

 

Guilt (& Shame) 

 

 

Greek Life

-see Sororities and fraternities
 

 

 

 


 


Habit Strength

 

 

Happiness & Life Satisfaction 

see also Psychological Well-Being

 

 

 

Health Behavior

 

Health- Measures of Physical Health

 

Hormones

See cortisol samples
 

 



 
 

Identity

see Social Identity, Individualism or Racial Identity

 

 

Individualism vs.  Collectivism (Communal & Agentic Orientations, Independent vs. Interdependent)