Research Guides: Finding Tests and Measures : Internet Resources

Using Google and Other Internet Sources to Find Tests and Measures

You can try to use Google to find a measure (put the full name of the test in quotes), but please remember:

Anyone can publish on the Web-you need to verify the author's/publisher's credentials; also, has validity and reliability for the measure been established, etc.?
You may end up in dead-ends, i.e., links to commercially available tools, not full-text.
Look for permissions to use the measure-someone who copies and puts up a test could be violating copyright.
Recommended websites: government sites, e.g., CDC, academic departments at higher education institutions, and established policy organizations/think tanks

Measures Freely Available on the Internet

Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-DASS
Via the Psychology Foundation of Australia
Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R) Adult Attachment Questionnaire
Farley, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Geriatric Depression Scale
Stanford/VA/NIA Aging Clinical Research Center
Measuring Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration; A Compendium of Assessment Tools
The first four items lead to multiple measures. The remaining items are single, individual measures.
Psychological Maltreatment of Women Inventory
Richard M. Tolman, School of Social Work, University of Michigan
Rand Health-Surveys and Tools
These surveys are public documents, available without charge, for non-commercial purposes. Provided by the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit institution that seeks to improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis.
Self-Report Measures of Adult Attachment
A comparison of different self-report measures of adult attachment. By Phillip R. Shaver of University of California, Davis and R. Chris Fraley of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Includes:
1. Hazan and Shaver's (1987) original self-report measure of adult romantic attachment.
2. Bartholomew and Horowitz's (1991) Relationships Questionnaire (RQ).
3. Brennan et al.'s (1998) Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR)
4. Fraley, Waller, and Brennan's (2000) Experiences in Close Relationships Revised (ECR-R)
5. The Experiences in Close Relationships-Relationship Structures (ECR-RS).
6. Gillath, Hart, Noftle, and Stockdale's (2009) State Adult Attachment Measure (SAAM)
Self-Report Measures, e.g., COPE, LOT-R
A variety of measures made available by Dr. Charles Carver, University of Miami. For instance, COPE is a measure of coping; LOT-R measures optimism-pessimism;MAQ, a measure of adult attachment qualities.