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ENG 301: Research Strategy Worksheet
Research Question (1pt)
What are the best measure of happiness that college students should apply to their busy
lives?
Databases (2 pts)
Make a list of library databases best suited to your research. In addition to the most
popular databases, use the library’s database list to help you identify specialized
databases connected to your field. List at least four quality databases.
1. Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
2. Research Library (Proquest)
3. JSTOR
4. Flipster (Popularmagazine)
Search Terms (4 pts)
Draw on your background reading to identify useful search terms. What words do
people use to describe your issue? List at least eight terms you can use in your online
and database searches.
For example, if I were researching political advertisements’ impact on voting, I might list
the following terms: advertisements, campaign ads, marketing, propaganda, political
campaigns--research, media, press, voting, and exit polling. You can browse subject
terms in EBSCO and ProQuest to find the terms databases use to index the research you
need.
1. studies
2.happiness
3.emotions
4.politics
5.quality of life
6. society
7.humans
8.behavior
Boolean Search Strings (2 pts)
Create at least four different Boolean searches that you will use to find research in
databases and online. For example, I might use this search string in an advanced
database search to find research on political advertisements’ impact on voting:
political ads
or
political advertisements
AND
voting
AND
results
or
effects
or
outcomes
Happiness studies
1. and politics
2. and quality of life
3. and society
4. and behavior
(*Remember, limiting your search to articles’ abstracts will further narrow your search.)
Leads (4 pts)
Use your background reading to make a list of possible leads, starting points for your
own research.
List the names of at least two people who do research in this field. You can use a focused
database search to find articles they have written connected to your issue.
1.
Ingelström Mats
2.
van der Deijl Willem
List the names of at least two research studies mentioned in other sources that you
want to review. You can use a focused database or Internet search to find those sources.
1. “Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic
Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries”.
2. “Core measure analysis of the happiness evaluative characteristics using ordinal
logistic regression”.
List two sources cited in your research that you want to review. You can use a focused
database search to find those sources.
1. “What measures justice? What justifies happiness? Emersonian moral perfectionism
and the cultivation of political emotions”.
2. “Happiness at Work Scale: Construction and Psychometric Validation of a Measure
Using Mixed Method Approach”.
List the names of two professional or government organizations that sponsor research
on your issue.
1. Walden University
2. Global Happiness Council
List the names of any people you know who have expertise in this field who may be
open to an interview.
Specialized Journals (2 pts)
Identify at least four specialized journals in EBSCOHost or ProQuest that you can search
for sources.
1. “A New Worldwide Measure of Happiness Explains National Differences in Suicide
Rates and Cigarette Consumption” - Happiness is not the same as others the happiness
test is not accurate
2. “The Science of Happiness for Policymakers: An Overview” – Happiness is not defined
the same from person to person. New research required and overarching definition to
make government policy to attain happiness.
3. “Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic
Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries” – happiness correlates with individualism
only in western minded countries, other countries tie happiness with the group
4. “Spirituality, Religiousness, and Happiness in Children Aged 8-12 Years” – increase in
spirituality means more happiness.
5. “Review of "How Happy Can You be" a Film by Line Hatland: First Run/Icarus Films,
Brooklyn, NY, USA, 52 minutes/color/2005, www.frif.com,
mailroom@frif.com
” – factors
that influence happiness.
6. “20 Weeks to Happiness: Can a course in Positive Psychology change your life?”
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Reference List
Holder, M., Coleman, B., & Wallace, J. M. (2010).
Spirituality, religiousness, and
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