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Originally published in 1988, this title presents a longitudinal
research project 'Individual Development and Adjustment' (IDA),
planned and implemented at the Department of Psychology, University
of Stockholm. This title concerns the theoretical background of the
project, the planning and collecting of data during the second
phase of the project when the participants had reached adulthood,
and the presentation of some empirical, illustrative studies based
on the collected data.
First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Originally published in 1991, this volume represents the first
systematic attempt to apply a pattern approach to a comprehensive
longitudinal investigation. It focuses on individual differences in
female career development, from early adolescence through young
adulthood. Rather than constructing a general model of career
development, the authors use the interplay between theory and
observation to build networks of patterns demonstrating the
long-term consequences for adult women's career involvement, their
educational levels, their family commitments, and their social
networks. Throughout their investigation the authors interpret
individuals' patterns as characterizing processes that underlie
women's differential development. They illustrate that a research
strategy oriented toward pattern analysis and related methodology
reveals information that is generally obscured in more traditional
variable-oriented designs. They also argue that a pattern approach
is particularly suited to the tenets of modern interactionism,
which provides the theoretical foundation of the study.
David Magnusson’s compelling portraits offer a nuanced view on
the Purity Ball phenomenon in America. During a Purity Ball young
girls promise to ‘live pure lives before God’, and to remain
virgins until marriage. In return their fathers sign a commitment
promising to protect their daughters’ chastity. Sometimes rings
are exchanged as a symbol of their vows. After reading about the
Purity Ball phenomenon, Magnusson became increasingly captivated by
the growing popularity of these homegrown rituals. Equipped with a
large-format camera, he portrayed fathers and daughters who
participated in Purity Ball ceremonies from 2010 to 2011 in
Louisiana, Texas, Colorado and Arizona. Magnusson took the pictures
at sites near their homes; in the suits and ball gowns they wore at
the ceremony. ‘I wanted to create portraits that were beautiful;
images that the girls and their fathers would like to see hanging
on their walls at home, while someone from another cultural
background might experience the very same portraits in an entirely
different way.’ For Magnusson, the project Purity is about
investigating how the culture that surrounds us influences our
values. By raising questions, rather than providing answers,
Magnusson challenges us to map our principles as well as judgments.
During the last decade there has been increased awareness of the
limitations of standard approaches to the study of development.
When the focus is on variables and relationships, the individual is
easily lost.
This book describes an alternative, person-oriented approach in
which the focus is on the individual as a functioning whole. The
authors take as their theoretical starting points the
holistic-interactionistic research paradigm expounded by David
Magnusson and others, and the new developmental science in which
connections and interactions between different systems (biological,
psychological, social, etc.) are stressed. They present a
quantitative methodology for preserving--to the maximum extent
possible--the individual as a functioning whole that is largely
based on work carried out in the Stockholm Laboratory for
Developmental Science over the past 20 years.
The book constitutes a complete introductory guide to the
person-oriented approach. The authors lay out the underlying
theory, a number of basic methods, the necessary computer programs,
and an extensive empirical example. (The computer programs have
been collected into a statistical package, SLEIPNER, that is freely
accessible on the Internet. The empirical example deals with boys'
school adjustment from a pattern perspective and covers both
positive and negative adaptation.)
"Studying Individual Development in an Interindividual Context: A
Person-Oriented Approach" will be crucial reading for all
researchers who seek to understand the complexities of human
development and for their advanced students.
During the last decade there has been increased awareness of the
limitations of standard approaches to the study of development.
When the focus is on variables and relationships, the individual is
easily lost.
This book describes an alternative, person-oriented approach in
which the focus is on the individual as a functioning whole. The
authors take as their theoretical starting points the
holistic-interactionistic research paradigm expounded by David
Magnusson and others, and the new developmental science in which
connections and interactions between different systems (biological,
psychological, social, etc.) are stressed. They present a
quantitative methodology for preserving--to the maximum extent
possible--the individual as a functioning whole that is largely
based on work carried out in the Stockholm Laboratory for
Developmental Science over the past 20 years.
The book constitutes a complete introductory guide to the
person-oriented approach. The authors lay out the underlying
theory, a number of basic methods, the necessary computer programs,
and an extensive empirical example. (The computer programs have
been collected into a statistical package, SLEIPNER, that is freely
accessible on the Internet. The empirical example deals with boys'
school adjustment from a pattern perspective and covers both
positive and negative adaptation.)
"Studying Individual Development in an Interindividual Context: A
Person-Oriented Approach" will be crucial reading for all
researchers who seek to understand the complexities of human
development and for their advanced students.
Research on physical maturity has demonstrated conclusively that
the assumption of an age-homogenous development does not always
hold true. This volume presents a biosocial model focusing on the
role of individual differences in biological maturation to be used
as a framework for empirical studies exploring adolescent female
development. The longitudinal design of the research program offers
the possibilities to examine both short- and long-term consequences
for individual variations in pubertal development. In the present
volume, the data for these analyses consist of a broad range of
biological, mental, psychological, behavioral, and social factors
extending from the age of 10 to the age of 30. Some of the
questions the present volume attempts to answer are: * Are
variations in the timing of pubertal development among girls
related to their psychological and social life situation in the
adolescent years? If so, when is the relation most prominent? In
what areas is the relation most prominent? How does the relation
come about? * Do interindividual differences in physical maturation
have any long-term consequences for adult life? If so, in what
areas, for which girls, and through which developmental processes
does pubertal development operate? The long-term consequences are a
major concern addressed in considerable detail.
Originally published in 1988, this title presents a longitudinal
research project 'Individual Development and Adjustment' (IDA),
planned and implemented at the Department of Psychology, University
of Stockholm. This title concerns the theoretical background of the
project, the planning and collecting of data during the second
phase of the project when the participants had reached adulthood,
and the presentation of some empirical, illustrative studies based
on the collected data.
Longitudinal research is an essential element in the investigation
of human development over time, with considerable advantages over
more widely used cross-sectional research designs. This book
examines the scope for longitudinal studies in a range of
developmental fields, emphasizing the advantages of this approach
for the investigation of causal mechanisms and processes and the
dynamics of development over the lifespan. It also discusses
methodological issues and some of the practical and ethical
problems that longitudinal research may present. The distinguished
contributors review normal and disordered development in the
emotional, cognitive and social domains, including valuable
discussions of gene-environment interactions, the maturation of the
human brain, and issues relating to ageing.
Longitudinal research (or observing the same subject across time)
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
in longitudinal research emphasizing the importance of careful
matching of methodology to the substantive problem under
consideration. It deals particularly with concepts of stability and
change that are central to personality and developmental research.
Contributors to this volume explore the methodology and scope of
life span studies in a variety of contexts, including intellectual
and cognitive development, transitions such as that from childhood
to early adult life, social mobility, behavioral genetics, and
psychological disorder, particularly depression. It is a valuable
reference for a wide range of researchers in developmental
psychology, social and behavioral science, psychiatry,
epidemiology, and statistics.
Longitudinal research is an essential element in the investigation
of human development over time, with considerable advantages over
more widely used cross-sectional research designs. This book
examines the scope for longitudinal studies in a range of
developmental fields, emphasizing the advantages of this approach
for the investigation of causal mechanisms and processes and the
dynamics of development over the life-span. It also discusses
methodological issues and some of the practical and ethical
problems that longitudinal research may present. Drawing on the
final conference in the European Science Foundation's network
dealing with longitudinal research on individual development, this
is a valuable reference work for behavioural and developmental
scientists. The distinguished contributors review normal and
disordered development in the emotional, cognitive and social
domains, including valuable discussions of gene-environment
interactions, the maturation of the human brain, and issues
relating to aging. As a source of information and ideas this
volume, the concluding work in this series, will be of interest to
practitioners and research workers in developmental disciplines at
any stage of the life-cycle.
This volume describes from an interdisciplinary perspective human
motor development using longitudinal study methods. The biological
basis of motor development is discussed, looking at mechanisms of
embryonic growth and fetal development. Fetal movement patterns and
developmental processes and adaptations that continue throughout
childhood are also treated. Chapters cover the mechanisms that
underlie the development of posture, goal-directed behavior,
movement patterns for communication and the acquisition of skills,
such as tool use and writing. The book also considers how the
developmental process can go wrong. Possible risk factors for
abnormal motor development are discussed and the adaptive processes
that accompany motor deficiencies in childhood and later life are
also described.
Research on physical maturity has demonstrated conclusively that
the assumption of an age-homogenous development does not always
hold true. This volume presents a biosocial model focusing on the
role of individual differences in biological maturation to be used
as a framework for empirical studies exploring adolescent female
development. The longitudinal design of the research program offers
the possibilities to examine both short- and long-term consequences
for individual variations in pubertal development. In the present
volume, the data for these analyses consist of a broad range of
biological, mental, psychological, behavioral, and social factors
extending from the age of 10 to the age of 30. Some of the
questions the present volume attempts to answer are:
* Are variations in the timing of pubertal development among girls
related to their psychological and social life situation in the
adolescent years? If so, when is the relation most prominent? In
what areas is the relation most prominent? How does the relation
come about?
* Do interindividual differences in physical maturation have any
long-term consequences for adult life? If so, in what areas, for
which girls, and through which developmental processes does
pubertal development operate? The long-term consequences are a
major concern addressed in considerable detail.
This book provides an overview of the central issues of data
quality in longitudinal research, with a focus on data relevant for
studying individual development. Topics covered include
reliability, validity, sampling, aggregation, and the
correspondence between theory and method; more specific, practical
issues in longitudinal research, such as the drop-out problem and
issues of confidentiality are also addressed. The volume is the
result of an interdisciplinary endeavour by leading European
scientists to discuss appropriate ways of handling various types of
longitudinal data, including psychiatric data, alcohol data, and
criminal data.
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