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 Association for Psychological Science (APS), the
Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), the Society for Research in
Child Development (SRCD), Society for Research in Adult Development
(SRAD), British Psychological Society (BPS), Canadian Psychological
Association (CPA), and other related organizations.
