Problems and methods in longitudinal research : stability and change / edited by David Magnusson [and others].

Longitudinal research in human development requires more careful planning than do cross-sectional studies, and is demanding theoretically and organizationally. This volume focuses on methods of data treatment, emphasizing the importance of careful matching of methodology to the substantive problem u...

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Corporate Author: European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development
Other Authors: Magnusson, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Series:European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development ; 5
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Table of Contents:
  • Studying individual development : problems and methods / Lars R. Bergman, Gunnar Eklund and David Magnusson
  • Modeling individual and average human growth data from childhood to adulthood / Roland C. Hauspie [and others]
  • Intraindividual variability in older adults' depression scores : some implications for developmental theory and longitudinal research / John R. Nesselroade and David L. Featherman
  • Now you see it, now you don't : some considerations on multiple regression / George W. Brown, Tirril O. Harris and Louise Lemyre
  • Differential development of health in a life-span perspective / Leiv S. Bakketeig, Per Magnus and Jon Martin Sundet
  • Assessing change in cohort-longitudinal study with hierarchical data / Dan Olweus and Françoise D. Alsaker.
  • Statistical and conceptual models of 'turning points' in developmental processes / Andrew Pickles and Michael Rutter
  • Qualitative analyses of individal differences in intraindividual change : examples from cognitive development / Eberhard Schröder, Wolfgang Edelstein and Siegfried Hoppe-Graff
  • Application of correspondence analysis to a longitudinal study of cognitive development / Jacques Lautrey and Philippe Cibois
  • Event-history models in social mobility research / Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Alfred Hamerle and Karl Ulrich Mayer
  • Behavioral genetic concepts in longitudinal analyses / Nancy L. Pedersen
  • Genetic and environmental factors in a developmental perspective / Peter C.M. Molenaar, Dorret I. Boomsma and Conor V. Dolan.
  • Structural equation models for studying intellectual development / Georg Rudinger, Johannes Andres and Christian Rietz
  • Longitudinal studies for discrete data based on latent structure models / Erling B. Andersen
  • Stability and change in patterns of extrinsic adjustment problems / Lars R. Bergman and David Magnusson.