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PSYC 3382: Adolescent Psychology

This guide provides resources and suggested strategies to support research in Adolescent Psychology.

Databases for Psychology

PsycINFO

  • The major database for psychology, providing citations and abstracts for the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. 

  • Use the "APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms" 
    • Distinguish between conceptually close terms like "bullying" and "teasing"
    • Use specific technical vocabulary to get more relevant search results

  • Limits include: 
    • Major Subject Headings
    • Age
    • Gender
    • Methodology (find review articles here!)
    • Tests & Measures
    • Population
    • And more...

Multi-disciplinary databases

  • Scopus
    Scholarly articles in all disciplines, including psychology. This database can also be used to identify articles that cite an author or article that you specify
  • Web of Science
    Scholarly articles in all disciplines, including psychology. This database can also be used to identify articles that cite an author or article that you specify.

Databases in related fields

  • Gender Studies
    Combines the databases Women's Studies International and Men's Studies with the coverage of sexual diversity issues.  Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, working papers and dissertations
  • MEDLINE
    The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier bibliographic database, containing millions of references to journal articles in the life sciences, with a concentration on biomedicine.
    There are three different interfaces to the same data: MEDLINE in EBSCOhost | MEDLINE in Ovid | MEDLINE in Web of Science.
  • Social Work Abstracts
    Social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization and more.
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Indexes the international literature in sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.