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Psychology

Find resources to support your studies in psychology.

Using databases to locate psychological tests, measures, scales and surveys

Psychological test databases

Search tips

Some search tips on finding information in these key databases:

Cinahl

  • Limit your search using the Publication Type limits Questionnaire/Scale or Research Instrument
  • Restrict your search to articles that actually include a test instrument try adding the words AND APPENDED to your search strategy, eg pain AND (measure* OR test* OR score* OR scale* OR questionnaire OR assessment OR survey) AND appended

 ERIC

  • Limit your search using the Document Type limit Tests/Questionnaires
  • Restrict your search to articles that actually include a test instrument try adding the words AND APPENDED to your search strategy, eg self concept AND appended
  • You can limit the search above to Document Type as already suggested or add the keywords AND (measure* OR test* OR score* OR scale* OR questionnaire OR assessment OR survey)

 Sociological Abstracts and Medline do not have useful limit options for test and measurement instruments.  Keyword search or perform a thesaurus (subject heading) search for appropriate measurement terms and AND these to your subject term.