Advances in Longitudinal Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Jeffrey R. Harring, Gregory R. Hancock, Jeffrey R. Harring, Gregory R. Hancock

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781617358890, 9781617358906
• eBook ISBN: 9781617358913
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Teaching Social Science
• Index: Social Sciences

The importance that practitioners are placing on longitudinal designs and analyses signals a critical shift toward methods that enable a better understanding of developmental processes thought to underlie many human attributes and behaviors. A simple scan of one's own applied literature reveals evidence of this trend through the increasing number of articles adopting longitudinal methods as their primary analytic tools.

Advances in Longitudinal Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences is a resource intended for advanced graduate students, faculty, and applied researchers interested in longitudinal data analysis, especially in the social and behavioral sciences. The chapters are written by established methodological researchers from diverse research domains such as psychology, biostatistics, educational statistics, psychometrics, and family sciences. Each chapter exposes the reader to some of the latest methodological developments and perspectives in the analysis of longitudinal data, and is written in a didactic tone that makes the content accessible to the broader research community.

This volume will be particularly appealing to researchers in domains including, but not limited to: human development, clinical psychology, educational psychology, school psychology, special education, epidemiology, family science, kinesiology, communication disorders, and education policy and administration. The book will also be attractive to members of several professional organizations such as the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Psychological Society (APS), the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), the Society of Research in Child Development (SRCD), Society for Research in Adult Development (SRAD), British Psychological Society (BPS), Canadian Psychological Association (CPA), and other related organizations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series
• Advances in Longitudinal Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Modeling Longitudinal Data: Examining Facets of Change or Variability
• CHAPTER 1: A Template for Describing Individual Differences in Longitudinal Data, with Application to the Connection Between Learning and Ability
• CHAPTER 2: On Interpretable Reparameterizations of Linear and Nonlinear Latent Growth Curve Models
• CHAPTER 3: Mood Changes Associated with Smoking in Adolescents
• CHAPTER 4: Tethering Theory to Method
• CHAPTER 5: Dynamic Systems Analysis of Affective Processes in Dyadic Interactions Using Differential Equations
• Part II: Drawing Valid Inferences: Longitudinal Design Considerations and Model Assumptions
• CHAPTER 6: Sensitivity Analysis of Mixed-Effects Models When Longitudinal Data Are Incomplete
• CHAPTER 7: Finite Mixtures of Nonlinear Mixed-Effects Models
• CHAPTER 8: Growth Mixture Modeling and Causal Inference
• Part III: The Role of Measurement in Modeling Within-Subject and Between-Subject Effects
• CHAPTER 9: Disaggregating Within-Person and Between-Person Effects in Multilevel and Structural Equation Growth Models
• CHAPTER 10: Considering Alternative Metrics of Time
• CHAPTER 11: Valid Measurement Without Factorial Invariance
• CHAPTER 12: The Discrimination-Censoring Paradox in Item Response Growth Models
• About the Contributors