ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理科学进展 ›› 2011, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (12): 1868-1878.

• 研究方法 • 上一篇    

心理学常用效应量的选用与分析

郑昊敏;温忠麟;吴艳   

  1. (1华南师范大学心理应用研究中心, 广州 510631) (2广东外语外贸大学应用心理学系, 广州 510420)
  • 收稿日期:2010-11-10 修回日期:1900-01-01 出版日期:2011-12-15 发布日期:2011-12-15
  • 通讯作者: 温忠麟

The Appropriate Effect Sizes and Their Calculations in Psychological Research

ZHENG Hao-Min;WEN Zhong-Lin;WU Yan   

  1. (1 Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China)
    (2 Department of Applied Psychology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510420, China)
  • Received:2010-11-10 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2011-12-15 Published:2011-12-15
  • Contact: WEN Zhong-Lin

摘要: 效应量在量化方面弥补了零假设检验的不足。除了报告检验结果外, 许多期刊还要求在研究报告中包括效应量。效应量可以分为三大类别:差异类、相关类和组重叠类, 它们在不同的研究设计(如单因素和多因素被试间、被试内和混合实验设计)或在不同的数据条件下(如小样本、方差异质等)可能有不同的计算方法和用法, 但许多效应量可以相互转换。我们梳理出一个表格有助应用工作者根据研究目的和研究类型选用合适的效应量。

关键词: 效应量, 差异, 相关, 组重叠

Abstract: Effect sizes are important supplement of the null hypothesis significance testing. More and more academic journals request authors provide the effect sizes of their researches. Our purpose is to provide a guideline on how to compute the appropriate effect sizes of different researches and data types. We classified the effect sizes into three types, including difference-type, correlation-type and group-overlap. For each type of the effect sizes, there are different approaches of calculations and applications under different research designs (e.g., single-factor/multifactor between-subjects, single-factor/multifactor within-subjects) and data conditions (e.g., small sample size, heterogeneity of variance). Many effect sizes, however, can be transformed from one type to another. We summarized a table that may help readers to choose appropriate effect sizes for their researches based on the research purposes and research designs.

Key words: effect size, difference-type, correlation-type, group overlap-type