Longitudinal Research on Individual Development - Present Status and Future Perspectives

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.

List of contents

List of principal contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1. Human ontogeny: a longitudinal perspective D. Magnusson; 2. Genes, experience and development S. Scarr; 3. The human brain and longitudinal research in human development P. Casaer; 4. Longitudinal research and a biology of human brain development and behaviour V. S. Caviness, P. A. Filipek and D. N. Kennedy; 5. Cognitive, social and emotional development F. E. Weinert and W. Schneider; 6. Developmental psychopathology: some historical and current perspectives N. Garmezy; 7. Developmental psychopathogy as a research perspective M. Rutter; 8. Longitudinal research on human aging: the power of combining real-time, microgenetic and simulation approaches A. Kruse, U. Lindenberger and P. B. Baltes; 9. Development, aging and control: empirical and theoretical issues J. Brandtstädter; 10. Some methodological issues in longitudinal research: looking ahead L. R. Bergman; Index.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: European Network on Longitudinal Studies
• Assisted by: Paul Casaer (Editor), Casaer Paul (Editor), David Magnusson (Editor), Magnusson David (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.1993
• EAN: 9780521434782
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43478-2
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 560 g
• Illustrations: 21 b/w illus. 9 tables, Zeichnungen, nicht spezifiziert, Tabellen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: European Network on Longitudin; European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Basic principles; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Psychological methodology