Measurement-Reporting Practices in Social-and-Personality-Psychology Articles

Abstract

Psychological scientists are increasingly acknowledging the importance of transparency for research integrity. In the present study, we examined one important facet of transparency: providing enough information about measures so that readers can evaluate aspects of construct validity. With a focus on social and personality psychology, we explored how often authors in one journal report a scale name, citation, example item, number of items, and reliability coefficient and how often authors provide access to the study’s materials. We also investigated how measurement-reporting practices have changed from 2010 to 2020, the decade encompassing the start of the “credibility revolution” in psychol..