README file
Data Set Title: “Youth Participation in Psychological Literature: Corpus of Scholarly Publications from the PsycInfo Database”

Data Set Author/s: Name Surname (Affiliation), ORCID (if available); 
Iana Tzankova (University of Bologna), orcid.org/0000-0001-7172-2009
Elvira Cicognani (University of Bologna)

Data Set Contact Person/s: Name Surname (Affiliation), ORCID (if available), email;
Iana Tzankova (University of Bologna), orcid.org/0000-0001-7172-2009, iana.tzankova2@unibo.it;

Data Set License:
This data set is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/     

Publication Year: 2018

Data set Contents
The data set consists of:
		1 textual qualitative file saved in .xlsx format 
“DATASET_YouthParticipation_PsycInfoCorpus_20180927.xlsx”
		1 textual qualitative file saved in .csv format 
“DATASET_YouthParticipation_PsycInfoCorpus_20180927.csv”
		1 README file 
“README_YouthParticipation_PsycInfoCorpus_20180927.rtf”

Data set Documentation
•	Abstract
The dataset contains a textual corpus of references in psychological academic literature concerning youth participation, engagement and active citizenship. The references were retrieved from the electronic database PsycINFO, which is one of the most important bibliographic sources for international literature in psychology. The research was carried out on 30 August 2016, using each of the following terms: “active citizenship”, “civic engagement” or “political engagement”, “civic participation” or “political participation”, “activism”. The key terms that were used were chosen by the authors as most relevant in youth participation literature that treats particularly the public civic and political sphere.  These were required to appear together with words denoting young people: “youth*” or “young*”, “teen*” or “adolescen*” and delimited to titles, abstracts, keywords or subjects. The analyzed literature consists of 1777 selected entries published between 1990 and mid-2016. 
The dataset includes the following information: specific identifying information about the text itself (type/year/title/author/journal or book title/author affiliation); as well as information on the search terms used to retrieve the publication; and finally, the abstract/summary retrieved from the PsycInfo database. 
The corpus was used in specific lexicometric content analysis and the dataset allows its replication or further textual analyses.
•	Content of the files
	•	files DATASET_YouthParticipation_PsycInfoCorpus_20180927.xlsx and   DATASET_YouthParticipation_PsycInfoCorpus_20180927.csv contain the spreadsheet with the collected textual corpus, which consists of the following information: identification number; abstract of the publication; type of publication; year of publication; author(s); title of the publication; journal or book title in which the publication appears; country of affiliation of the first author; key terms used in the bibliographic search to denote the topic; key terms used in the bibliographic search to denote the population of interest.
LibreOffice 6.0.5.2 was used to create the .csv file starting from an .xlsx file. The parameters used for conversion are:
- Character set «Unicode (UTF-8)»
- Field delimiter «;» (semicolon)
- Text delimiter «”» (quotes)
	•	file README_YouthParticipation_PsycInfoCorpus_20180927.rtf contains information regarding the dataset: title; authors; contributors; license; contents and documentation.
•	Variables

Variable name	Variable description	Values	
ID	Identification number associated with each record in the dataset		
Abstract	Textual abstract taken from the publication 		
Type	Type of publication	Journal article; 
Book; 
Book section.	
Year	Year of publication		
Author	Author(s) of the publication		
Title	Title of the publication		
JournalBookTitle	 Journal (for journal articles) or book title (for book chapters), in which the publication appears		
Affiliation	Country of affiliation of the first author of the publication		
TopicKey	Key terms used in the bibliographic search to denote the topic	“CPE” = Civic or political engagement;
“CPP” = Civic or political participation;
“Act” = Activism;
“AC” = Active Citizenship;
“CPECPP” = Civic or political engagement & Civic or political participation;
“CPEAct” = Civic or political engagement & Activism;
“CPECPPAct” Civic or political engagement & Civic or political participation & Activism;
“CPPAct” = Civic or political participation & Activism;
“ACCPE” = Active citizenship & Civic or political engagement;
“ACCPECPP” = Active citizenship & Civic or political engagement & Civic or political participation;
“ACCPP” = Active citizenship & Civic or political participation.	
TargetKey	key terms used in the bibliographic search to denote the population of interest	“Teens” = adolescen* or teen*;
“Youth” = youth* or young*;
“YT” = adolescen* or teen*or youth* or young*.