Problems and Methods in Longitudinal Research

Stability and Change

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

Av David Magnusson, Lars R. Bergman, Georg Rudinger, David (Stockholms Universitet) Magnusson, Lars R. (Stockholms Universitet) Bergman, Georg (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn) Rudinger, Lars Bergman

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This volume focuses on methods of data treatment, emphasising the importance of careful matching of methodology to the substantive problem under consideration. It deals particularly with concepts of stability and change which are central to personality and developmental research. Contributions to this volume explore the methodology and scope of life span studies in a varity of contexts, including intellectual and cognitive development, transitions such as that from childhood to early adult life, social mobility, behavioural genetics, and psychological disorder, particularly depression. A valuable reference for a wide range of interests in developmental psychology, social and behavioural science, psychiatry, epidemiology and statistics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1994-03-24
Mått152 x 227 x 20 mm
Vikt534 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEuropean Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development
Antal sidor368
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521467322

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1. Studying individual development: problems and method; 2. Modeling individual and average human growth data from childhood to adulthood; 3. Intraindividual variability in older adults' depression scores: some implications for developmental theory and longitudinal research; 4. Now you see it, now you don't - some considerations on multiple regression; 5. Differential development of health in a life-span perspective; 6. Assessing of change in a cohort-longitudinal study with hierarchical data; 7. Statistical and conceptual models of 'turning points' in developmental processes; 8. Qualitative analysis of individual differences in intraindividual change: examples from cognitive development; 9. Application of correspondence analysis to a longitudinal study of cognitive development; 10. Event history models in social mobility research; 11. Behavioural genetic concepts in longitudinal analyses; 12. Genetic and environmental factors in a developmental perspective; 13. Structural equation models for studying intellectual development; 14. Longitudinal studies for discrete data based on latent structure models; 15. Stability and change in patterns of extrinsic adjustment problems.

"...provides good examples of a wide variety of methods, ranging in degree of complexity, for analyzing longitudinal data; the authors represent many disciplines and are international experts in longitudinal methods; and their applications cover areas as diverse as cognition and intelligence, self and personality, health status, and even social mobility...raises sociologists' awareness of the individual differences perspective favored in many other disciplines...will appeal to scholars from many disciplines who have specialized interests in individual development over time. It is also a fine volume for sociologists who want to learn more about the ways in which researchers in the individual-differences tradition approach individual analyses." Richard A. Setterson, Jr. & Thomas D. Cook, Contemporary Sociology