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How to understand psychological literature?
In fact, the easiest way is to read more books, not joking, but really useful.

Secondly, we need to know what a psychological article basically consists of. As far as the text is concerned, it can be roughly divided into 3-4 parts. Generally speaking, the first part is literature review, which is mostly about the theoretical research of variables used in the article, such as definition, research status, previous research, etc. The second part is generally a data analysis part or an experimental design part. This part mainly reflects the design process of the experiment or the data analysis through questionnaire survey, focusing on the method; The third part is the discussion part as a whole, which expounds and proves the viewpoint of my thesis according to the results of data analysis combined with the literature review in the first part, and there will also be educational suggestions in some papers such as mental health education; Finally, there are usually references and appendices. The help of references is that you can see the earliest research on related articles from his references. The appendix usually appears in the questionnaire survey method, and you can get the questionnaire used in his article from the appendix.

Knowing the structure of an article, we just need to prescribe the right medicine. We needed that part, so we went to see it. For example, if we need to know the theory of a variable, then we may find many articles about this variable. We just need to look at his literature review and conclusion. How to do it is not the point we want to see. Such a long psychological article is divided into many parts, and it is much easier to read one part than the whole article.

I hope it helps you.