Welcome
What are you trying to do?
A thesis or dissertation in psychology and behavioural science.
Your path
Create the study
Title, purpose, ethics reference and a retention period. The purpose has to be specific enough for a respondent to know what they are agreeing to.
Build the questionnaire
The Studio has an item bank of validated scales you can insert whole, with the reverse-scored items already marked.
Open collection and share the link
Twelve NDPA conditions are checked before the first respondent. Fix what it names and the gate opens.
Analyse
Choose what you want to find out. Assumption checks run whether or not you ask, and the wrong test is refused.
Export the chapter
APA 7 tables and sentences in Word, with the Method section assembled from what the study already recorded.
What people in your field ask
Build the instrument - check it holds together - check it works the same in every group - then compare or model.
- Does my scale hang together?reliability
- Is it measuring one thing or several?efa
- Does the questionnaire mean the same thing to men and women?measurement invariance
- Did the intervention change anything?repeated measures anova
- Does X affect Y through M?mediation
Watch for: Reporting alpha as evidence of unidimensionality. It rises with the number of items and a twenty-item scale measuring two things easily exceeds .90.
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