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Personality Assessment Psychology

What you can expect from PscyINFO

Comprehensive Coverage

  • More than 3.7 million records, covering psychology back to its underpinnings in the 17th Century
  • Records for peer-reviewed journals, books, and dissertations
  • Professional coverage beyond psychology to include related disciplines such as medicine, law, social work, neuroscience, business, nursing, forensics, engineering, and more

High-quality Records

  • Meticulously indexed by subject experts at APA
  • Extensive pre-release quality assurance and post-release record monitoring ensures highly relevant and accurate results
  • Immediate coverage of correction and retraction notices indexed and cross-referenced to original record

Authoritative Publications

  • Each publication indexed in PsycINFO has been carefully selected by a team of experts for relevance
  • Direction advised by esteemed scholars, scientists, and librarians within APA's membership and the library community

Using PsycINFO step-by-step

To use Advanced Search with Guided-Style Fields:

1. Click the Advanced Search link below the Find field.

2. Enter your search terms in the first Find field on the Advanced Search screen.

3. Choose the search field from the optional Select a Field drop-down list (for example, search in only the Subject Terms field of the citation).

4. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for the second set of Find fields.

5. Select a Boolean operator (AND, OR, NOT) to combine the two Find field entries.

6. You can enter another Boolean operator, keyword, and search field in the third set of fields.

7. If you need additional rows, click the Add Row link. Up to 12 rows can be displayed. To delete a row, click the Remove Row link.

8. Select from the available Search Options:

Search modes - Use specific search modes, such as "Find all of my search terms," or "SmartText Searching," or use search options that expand your search such as "Apply related words."

Limit your results - such as Full Text or Publication type.

Special Limiters - Apply limiters specific to a database. If you select a special limiter, it is applied only to the database under which it appears

9. Click the Search button. The Result List displays. The search field is displayed above the Result List. Your search terms, limiters and expanders are retained. To revise your search, you can apply the limiters under Refine your results. Click the Show More link to view all available limiters and expanders.

How do I find the full text of the article?

Click on the article title in blue to link out to the full article if available.  If the full-text is not available, click on "Find Full Text" leading to another database or a publishers website, for example.  Click on "Request through Tipasa ILL" to request the article through interlibrary loan.