Longitudinal study

You literally fell down drunk and died. Not quite what the study had in mind. Last fall, I spent about a month in the file room of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, hoping to learn the secrets of the good life. The project is one of the longest-running—and probably the most exhaustive—longitudinal studies of mental and physical well-being in history. Begun in 1937 as a study of healthy, well-adjusted Harvard sophomores (all male), it has followed its subjects for more than 70 years.…

during delay of gratification tasks at 2-, 3-, and 4 years of age. Theory suggests young children initially use more emotion focused SRS before transitioning to greater use of planful SRS by 4 years of age, but according to the authors, little longitudinal research had been conducted, at the time of writing, on the changes in SRS in the early years of development, and in particular, in children at risk (Supplee, Skuban, Trentacosta, Shaw, & Stoltz, 2011). This essay…

homelessness and may include: family conflict or breakdown, emotional and domestic abuse, substance disorders, refugee status, military background, health defiance, mental health disorders, and poverty. Vostanis, Grattan, and Cumella (1998) sentinel longitudinal…

In the first study, the researchers focused on whether age differences in agentic and communal values shower the same patters across a wide spectrum of countries individualism and collectivism. At the end of the first study, they found that age was generally positively associated with communal personal values and was either not associated or negatively associated with agentic values. In the second study, the researchers tested whether people in different cultures…

Perron, and Andrew Biemiller describes the effect of age and gender on kindergarten admission. The authors performed an exploratory study that induced a review of existing literature on the effect of age and gender on a child’s school preparedness. To this end, the researchers sought to analyze the concept of school readiness with respect to age and gender. The study revealed that children that start schooling at an older age exhibit better emotional, social, and behavioral development than…

The basic purpose conducted in the study by Dana L. Haynie out of Ohio State University and Scott J. South out of University at Albany reflects the impact of recent residential mobility on adolescent violence using various mechanisms using parent-child relationships, psychological distress, experiences of victimization and peer networks to show a relationship between residential mobility and violent behavior. In other words, the researchers are trying to evaluate the cause of childhood violence…

Proposed Research Title: Early Life Pregnancies: Options, Outcomes, and Impacts Background While teen-pregnancy has continued a steady decline in the last two decades, the United States still has among the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in the Western world . Further, geographic variation and race and class disparities are significant, with Hispanic and Black teens in the United States have nearly one-and-a-half-times higher rates than average and about twice as high as White teens .…

The Problem and Purpose of this study The purpose of the study is to find out how different types and combinations of interpersonal violence relate to a women’s mental health status. This study focuses on how how experiences with sexual assault, physical assault, and witnessing a serious injury or death throughout a woman’s life are associated with increased problems of mental health issues and substance abuse problems. This study addressing an experience of one aspect of interpersonal…

Tiet et al. (2001) study argues that IQ is a protective factor for youth, where maternal psychopathology is a risk factor for youth and children. Tiet et al. (2001) states that a higher IQ benefits youth with coping with adverse life events because they are more likely to critically think and problem solve. These children and youth are better at equipped with using their experience to positively shift their mental thinking (Tiet et al., 2001). Youth with higher IQ are able to think more…

Relationships Article 1: Mack, Kristin Y. (2004). The Effects of Early Parental Death on Sibling Relationships in Later Life, Journal of Death and Dying, 49(2), 131-148 1. Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), this article studies whether adults who have experienced parental death at an early age are closer and have more contact with their siblings compared to adults who were fortunate not to experience such mishap and raised in intact families. Also, this…