The Power of Personality Research: Analyzing Methods and Findings

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PSCY3010 Research in Personality Assignment Guidelines What is the purpose of this assignment? The goal of this assignment is for you to review and analyze original personality research. This assignment will provide you with an opportunity to further develop your own perspective on and theories about human personality, and to appraise various research methods used in personality research. For each of these assignments, you will locate and analyze a research article that is of interest to you, and share that analysis with your peers so they can also learn from your findings. What is a research article and where do I find this? A research article reports the results of original research, provides its contributions to the body of knowledge in a given areas, and is published in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. To locate a research article, you will log into the JWU library. The following databases provide scholarly articles on various topics: Credo Reference EBSCO –Ebook Academic Collection Ebook-Pro-quest Health & Life Sciences Journal Collections Psyarticles Psychiatry online with DSM Manual What do I look for in selecting the article? Make sure your article has 4 main components of a research article: introduction, methods, results and discussion. Make sure that the subject of the article is on a topic related to the material covered in the indicated course weeks. Find an article that is not too technical for you; make sure you understand the main points of the article. Read the abstract first, if available, to understand what the article is about. (Suggested) Do not retrieve an article that has more than 10 pages. Your article must be related to the topic of personality. What is expected in my analysis? Provide a brief analysis of the article you retrieved. Your analysis should be 250 words in length. In your...