This is a lab report you will need to find two articles that is related to perce

This is a lab report you will need to find two articles that is related to perceived life stress and its related construct of interest, after you find it you will have to summarize it
Objectives for Lab 8:
1. Use psyclNFO to search the literature for relevant articles
2. Find two research articles
3. Complete two article summaries (article summary page can be found on Canvas)
FOR this lab report you will have to submit the following:
 Literature Review (8pts, 4pts each article)
 For this lab, you will be uploading a Word document with a screenshot of your 2 abstracts and your articles summaries for each article
 Both articles should be related to your outcome variable of interest.
 The ideal scenario is to find one article that would provide background for your group difference hypothesis and one article that would provide background for your correlation hypothesis.
here’s the step how you can find the literature
Accessing psyclNFO
 You have a link to the library on your SDSU homepage (sdsu.edu). Click on “menu” then “current student” then scroll down to ACADEMICS and click on “library)
 On the Library Homepage, select Databases, then Databases a-z, select the P category, and
scroll down and click on psyclNFO
Doing a search
 At the top of the search screen, you have three open boxes where you can put your search
terms.
 In the first box, type in your specific class survey topic (self-esteem or perceived life stress)
 In the second box, type in the related construct of interest (predictor. – e.g., gender)
 On the right side of the screen a couple of rows down, you will see an option called
Publication Year from ______ to ______
 Type in 2010 in the first box (this will ensure that our search is recent)
 On the right side of the screen a couple of rows down, you will see an option called Peer Reviewed-click that box (this will make sure we only get peer- reviewed journals articles- not dissertations or book chapters)
 Click on the Search box (either at the top or the bottom of the page).
Results of a search
 At the top, you should see All Results: 1-30 of ____
 If this number is above 100, you might want to add another search term or use a synonym for one of the terms you have in the search-this just means your search is still too broad to be beneficial. If this number is reasonable, you can start scrolling through the titles until you find ones that sounds of interest to your search. Click on the title to read the abstract.
 Once you have located articles of interest, make note of the citation
 Exclude dissertations (the peer-review option should screen these out)
 Avoid using a review article or a meta-analysis as one of your two papers-they take a bit more work to “decipher”
 You will need this to find the actual article
 Note: some articles are available online. You will usually see the PDF option on that search
results screen or when you click on the title to read the abstract. If this is an option, save it
and/or print the article so that you have it.
 However, if the article is not available online, you will have to go to the library to find the actual print article and make a copy of it. If you need help finding anything, ask the librarians-that is what they are there for.
 If we do not have access to it, find another article because Interlibrary Loan can take a while… sorry.
Finalizing your articles
 If you are having a difficult time limiting your search (your search is too broad), ask your
groups members and/or your TA
 If you are having a difficult finding anything (your search is too narrow), also ask your groups
members and/or your TA
 Make sure you read the abstracts to see if these articles are close to what you are looking for…
when you have found one…
 Find the complete article
 Read the complete article (hopefully it is still what you are looking for)
 If it is not what you were looking for, keep searching.
 Complete the article summary page to turn in with your article.
 When completing these, highlight portions of the abstract/article where you are pulling the
relevant information for the summary sheet.
 Try paraphrasing this information for the article summary sheet-as you will need this for the
Introduction section of your paper
AFter you find the article, you will have to summarize for each article