The majority of my sources are websites, as they are easy to find and read through and usually provide details on researchers or other sources you can access to find more information or factors you can discuss. One website I found particularly helpful was 'Athletic Insight' as it explained information in great detail the information and backed this up with vast amounts of research conducted by sports psychologists. I then used this to find their work and read it in depth to use in my EPQ.
However, websites can also be unhelpful in many ways. Usually, information is cut down to a minimum which can be useful to gain a base, but when needing to expand on information you need to find more websites or more specialised sources (eg textbooks or research reports.) As I also stated earlier, many websites may not provide accurate information for example Wikipedia as everyone can access and change this information.
As a result, the detailed majority of my information came from articles and research reports that I found on websites like Jstor and Google Scholar or I found as a result of my website searches. A good thing about these is the level of details you gain from using these, as it is very thorough and goes into the depth you need for a research project. They are also conducted by psychologists in the field who specialise on the topic you wish to know more about. However many of these cannot be accessed without cost and the ones you can access may not be entirely relevant to your topic. Furthermore due to the large detail they can also been hard to scan for information you wish to find or hard to understand.
In addition I also used textbooks in my research. Similarly to articles, they are written by people who specialise in their field and the information will have been scrutinised and corrected in peer review. However they can occasionally lack in detail also and are expensive to buy unless you have free access to them.
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