Below is a list of reference materials that are available to you to use to look for measures.

Title / Main Library / Psych Test Lib
Dictionary of behavioral assessment techniques / Yes / No
Directory of unpublished experimental mental measures / Yes / No
Encyclopedia of psychological assessment / Yes / No
Handbook of marketing scales : multi-item measures for marketing and consumer behavior research / Yes / Yes
Handbook of measurement for marriage and family therapy / Yes / No
Handbook of research design and social measurement / Yes / No
Handbook of sexuality-related measures / Yes / No
Handbook of test and measures for Black populations / Yes / No
Measures in clinical practice
Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes / No / Yes
Measurement sourcebook / Yes / No
Mental measurements yearbook / Yes / No
Measures of religiosity / Yes / No
Measuring health: A guide to rating scales and questionnaires / No / Yes
Research instruments in social geronotology / Yes / No
HaPI (Health and Psychological Instruments ) searchable database much like PsychINFO that you can access online. Please note that TCNJ owns only a single license. This means that if anyone else is searching, you will not able to log in. / Yes / No

Once you have identified the measure that you are interested in, how do you find the actual measure itself?

  1. Find the article that provides measurement validity/reliability. It will most likely list the items in the text of the article, or in the back as an appendix.
  2. Find the measure in the Testing Library.
  3. Find the measure from on-line psychological testing sites.
  1. Make sure that the measure is NOT copyrighted. If a measure is copyrighted, you need to get permission from the author for use. Most authors will allow undergraduate students to use their measure for research, so just e-mail and ask!
  2. How do you know if a measure is copyrighted?
  3. If you found the measure from the Directory of unpublished experimental and mental measures, then that’s a pretty good indicator that the measure is not copyrighted.
  4. If you found it on the Social-Personality Psychology Questionnaire webpage, then that’s a pretty good indicator that the measure is not copyrighted. Or, if it is, then the author has allowed for a research exception. If in doubt, e-mail the author and ask.
  5. If you found it on Psychological Tests for Student Use, then chances are also pretty good that the measure has permission for student research use, or is in the public domain.