Meta-analysis in psychological research.

Meta - analysis in Psychological Research

Meta-analysis is a research methodology that aims to quantitatively integrate the results of a set of empirical studies about a given topic. With this purpose, effect-size indices are obtained from the individual studies and the characteristics of the studies are coded in order to examine their relationships with the effect sizes. Statistical analysis in meta-analysis requires the weighting of ...

Meta-analysis of psychological intervention for chronic pain: Challenges and Strategies for research quality improvement

 Aims and background: Chronic pain is a pervasive, destructive and expensive problem with a biopsychosocial nature. Psychological interventions suggested to be an effective choice for chronic pain, and many trials  confirmed its effectiveness and several meta-analyses have estimated the amount of its effect. Considering the psychological and social aspects of pain, it’s possible that the Irania...

An overview and meta-analysis of psychological research on creativity

One goal of this portion of the report is to provide a brief overview of our current understanding of what the psychological research community examining creativity tells us about the topic, as well as to review some of the conceptual and methodological issues involved in the psychological study of creativity. A third goal is to discuss some of the implications of this research for requirements...

The eeffectiveness of psychological treatments on oppositional defiant disorder in Iran: meta-analysis

Background: Childhood is the most important stage of development of every human being. One of the most common childhood disorders is oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), so the aim of this study was to review and meta-analyze the effectiveness of psychological therapies (including improving parenting styles, life skills training and Social, play and story therapy) on this disorder. Materials a...

Meta-Analysis of Massage Research