Content analysis of iranian psychological journals:research topics and methods

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Behrouz Mahram ¹ , Effat Tavanaee Shahroudi ²

1 - Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
2 - M. A. in Education

Received: 2015-06-05 Accepted : 2015-06-05 Published : 2009-12-22

Keywords: Content Analysis, research topic and method, scientific psychology journals,

Abstract :

This study aimed the content analysis of academic articles in psychology journals. Three hundred seventeen articles of seven scientific Iranian journals published in 2005-2007 were given randomly to 6 psychology researchers to content analysis regarding their topics and research methods. Another researcher reanalyzed 20% of the target articles randomly (interrater correlation coefficient = 0.85). Findings demonstrated that the areas of health, developmental, educational, clinical, and counseling psychology were the most frequent subjects. The most common designs were test standardization, correlational, causal-models, experimental and quasi-experimental studies. No articles about sport psychology or any articles based on qualitative methods were found.