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In this video, we learn to evaluate results that we get from the
PSYCH Info database search.
Let's start researching a topic. I would really like to know if clothing can
impact a person's self-esteem or body image.
Ever notice how you feel great when you wear certain outfits?
Is that because of the outfit? Or did it have more to do with the mood you were in
when you selected that outfit? If I can't
find exactly this topic, then I want to get a number of articles
on how clothing may affect self-esteem or body image in general.
I have already done some searching.
I've picked out some search terms to use.
Clothing, as a subject heading, AND
"self-esteem" in quotes or "body image" in quotes.
The quotes will force PsycINFO to search those as phrases
and not separate words. I'll hit SEARCH.
And PsycINFO will come back with a set of results.
There are 98 items altogether.
Next to each title is an icon,
And that icon tells me what kind of item this is.
Some are dissertations.
Some are journal articles. Some are books.
An easy way for me to get only journal articles
is to go to the right side of the screen,
where there's a limiter that says Scholarly Journals.
Also like that. Then I'll only have 68 items.
Another important limit would be DATE.
You may be required to only get the most recent articles.
An easy way to do that is also on the right side of the screen.
I'll move the sidebar, little slider, over.
We'll select about the last 10 years, and click the Update button.
It's easy to make it only the last five years.
Now I have 39 results.
But I'm still not done. There a different kinds journal articles.
Some are essays. Some may be book reviews.
And some may be article reviews and not actual research studies.
Some articles are research studies or empirical articles,
and those are what I'm looking for. The best way to know if you have one of
those
is to read the title, carefully, and then read the abstract, carefully.
Out of these 39, it looks like I do have some
good research studies here. Like this one,
the very first one: "The Effect of clothing size and self esteem
and body image." I can't really tellwitht the second one
I'd have to look at the actual abstract to be sure.
So I'm gonna click on that title and read the abstract. Well it looks like it is a
research study aimed to investigate
and I see some numbers here from a number of subjects in this study: 162.
They should give me a little bit of information
about what they did in the study, and
a little bit about the results, too. If I find that this is an article I really
want,
it's easy to get. I can click the 360 Link to Full Text,
and our system will go out and look for the full text that article.
and you could download it. Let me go back to my results set again.
Anything that looks good, I may want to also
mark and save.
I can email all these citations to myself. I can get the citation format
in APA and copy this to a Word document. Both could be really handy
when it comes time to do your papers. It is important to look through all your
results.
Don't just pick the very first few. There can be some great
articles down towards the bottom. And again,
read those titles and those abstracts very carefully.
It's easy to do a basic search in PsycINFO.
It's easy to find some good journal articles. But it's a little tougher
and takes more time to find great Journal articles
that you'll find really interesting. So that's it for now.
If you have any questions or any trouble getting your articles, please
contact the library.
Use the ASK-US button. You can chat with us or email.
Thank you. Bye now.