Article Identification

locate a relevant, appropriate journal article for your
critique. The journal article critique focuses on peer-reviewed, empirical journal articles.
Your journal article critique must focus on one of the theories of personality covered in
this course (I encourage you to browse ahead in the course to overview all the various
theories of personality that we will cover).

Utilize the UMUC library (www.umuc.edu) to locate a peer-reviewed, empirical journal
article; you must select an article from a scholarly journal- Articles must meet the
following criteria;

Primary research – Articles should report the results of an original research study (no
meta-analyses, summaries, editorials or theoretical articles).

Refereed – Articles must come from peer-reviewed journals; you may not use articles
from blogs, popular press books, magazines, textbooks or non-academic publications.
Personality focus – Articles must examine one of the theories or measures of
personality covered in our course-

submit the permalink to your article OR you can upload a PDF copy of
the article.