Research methods in psychology, 5th ed.

By J. Shaughnessy, E. B. Zechmeister, Jeanne S. Zechmeister. 2000

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Positive organisation : the role of leader behaviour in work engagement and retention : original research (2011, methodology): “The objectives set out for this research will be achieved through a survey design (Shaughnessy & Zechmeister, 1997).”
Inference by eye: Reading the overlap of independent confidence intervals (2009, background): “[15] advised that ‘When the [95 per cent] CIs do not overlap, we can be confident that the population means for the two groups differ’ (p.”
Psychological capital, work engagement and organisational commitment amongst call centre employees in South Africa (2013, methodology): “According to Shaughnessy and Zechmeister (2000) this type of research design is ideally suited to descriptive and predictive functions and is thus well suited to achieve the aims and objectives of the present study.”