Guides: Psychology: Finding Tests and Measurements

Tests and Measurements Databases

APA PsycTests This link opens in a new window
The APA PsycTests, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), serves as a repository for full-text psychological tests and measures, offering structured information about them. It encompasses a broad collection of items related to psychological measures, scales, surveys, and other essential research instruments across the behavioral and social sciences research.
Mental Measurements Yearbook This link opens in a new window
Offers consumer-oriented test reviews including descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the series contains information for evaluating test products in psychology, education, business and leadership. Limit of 4 concurrent users.

Free tests in journal articles and books

Tests that have been published within books or journal articles are readily available and may meet your research needs. Note that many articles and books provide information about tests, but only some of them may include the actual test instruments.

APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Select "Tests" in the "Supplemental Materials" search options. This will narrow your search to articles with tests appended. Use additional search boxes to add keywords.
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Useful MeSH (medical subject headings) include questionnaires, psychological tests, health status rating scales, psychiatric status rating scales, and personality inventory. You can also keyword search, e.g., depression and questionnaire.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Tests may be included as appendices to dissertations

Open Access

Open Access repositories are a growing resource for accessing text measures. Below are some repositories to find tests and measures.

OSF (Open Science Framework)
OSF includes open access published research, research projects, preprints, pre-registrations, and more. To find specific tests or measurements, search by the measurement name along with keywords that relate to your topic.
PsycTEL online community
Psychology-Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching on Zenodo.
Social-Personality Psychology Questionnaire Instrument Compendium (QIC)
A relatively small but possibly useful collection of full tests in the area of social & personal psychology, maintained by Alan Reifman of Texas Tech University.