The book that established itself as a standard text and reference work for students seeking to master research methods and procedures in psychology has been updated and revised in this new edition! The Second Edition of The Psycho

Frederick T. L. Leong, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology (Industrial/Organizational and Clinical Psychology Programs) and Psychiatry. He is also the Director of the Center for Multicultural Psychology Research at Michigan State University. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 journal articles and book chapters. In addition, he has edited or co-edited 12 books. Dr. Leong is a Fellow of the APA (Divisions 1, 2, 5, 12, 17, 29, 45, 52), Association for Psychological Science, Asian American Psychological Association, and the International Academy for Intercultural Research. His major research interests center around culture and mental health, cross-cultural psychotherapy (especially with Asians and Asian Americans), and cultural and personality factors related to career choice and work adjustment. He is past president of APA¿s Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues), the Asian American Psychological Association, and the Division of Counseling Psychology in the International Association of Applied Psychologists. He has served on the APA Board of Scientific Affairs, the Minority Fellowship Program Advisory Committee, and the Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training (CEMRRAT2) Task Force. He received the Dalmas Taylor Distinguished Contributions Award from the APA Minority Fellowship Program and the Stanley Sue Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology from APA Division 12. He is also the 2007 co-recipient of the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology.

Foreword - Anthony Marsella
Acknowledgments
Introduction - James T. Austin, Frederick T. L.
PART I. RESEARCH PLANNING
Research as a script - Douglas A. Hershey, Joy M. Jacobs-Lawson, Thomas L. Wilson
Finding a research topic - Frederick T. L. Leong, Douglas J. Muccio
Bibliographic research - Jeffrey Reed, Pam Baxter
Reviewing and evaluating a research article - Kathryn Oleson, Robert Arkin
Program evaluation: Concepts and Perspectives - James Altschuld, James Austin
PART II. DESIGN, INSTRUMENT SELECTION OR DEVELOPMENT, & SAMPLING
Designing a research study - Bruce Wampold
Evaluating and selecting psychological measures for research purposes - Madonna Constantine, Joseph Ponterotto
Designing surveys and questionnaires for research - Robert Goddard, Peter Villanova
Scale development - John Lounsbury, Lucy Gibson, Rich Saudargas
Applying sampling procedures - William McCready
Statistical power - Brett Myors
PART III. DATA COLLECTION
Applying for approval to conduct research with human participants - Don Dell, Lyle Schmidt, Naomi Meara
Conducting mail & Internet surveys - Alan Vaux, Chad Briggs
Conducting telephone surveys - Peter Chen, Yueng-hsiang Huang
Collecting data in groups - Steven Zaccaro, Meredith Cracraft, Michelle Marks
PART IV. DATA ANALYSIS
Cleaning up data and running preliminary analyses - David DiLalla, Stephen Dollinger
Qualitative methods - Howard Pollio, T. R. Graves, Michael Arfken
A Basic guide to Statistical research and discovery: Planning and selecting statistical analyses - Charles A.Scherbaum
Basic statistical analyses - David Dickter
Using advanced statistics - Lisa Steelman, Paul Levy
Conducting a meta-analysis - Harris Cooper, Jorgianne Civey Robinson, Nancy Dorr
Archival data sets: Revisiting issues and considerations - Barbara Zaitzow, Charles Fields
PART V. RESEARCH WRITING
Writing in APA style: Why and how - Robert Calderón, James Austin
Writing rough drafts - Christopher Peterson
Revising a research manuscript - Donna Nagata, Steven Trierweiler
Dealing with journal editors and reviewers - Samuel Osipow
PART VI. SPECIAL TOPICS
Coordinating a research team: Maintaining & developing a good working laboratory - Dennis Molfese & Colleagues
Multilevel research - David Chan
Computational modeling - Michael Zickar
Applying for research grants - John Borkowski, Kimberly Howard
Cross-cultural research methodology - Kwok Leung, Fons Van de Vijver
Applying theories to research: The interplay of theory and research in science - Charles Gelso
The research script: One researcher¿s view - Richard Petty
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors