Problems and Methods in Longitudinal Research
Stability and Change

An analysis of data treatment methodology for longitudinal research studies.

David Magnusson (Edited by), Lars R. Bergman (Edited by), Georg Rudinger (Edited by), Bertil Torestad (With)

9780521467322, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 March 1994

368 pages, 61 b/w illus. 69 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.54 kg

"...One finds in the 15 chapters both quantitative and qualitative procedures appropriate for questions on several levels of analysis. Examples are provided from numerous fields. The issues are critical both to planning and successful execution so the content of this volume will be useful for a long time." Perceptual and Motor Skills

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Psychological methodology [JMB]