The Lighthouse Program: A Longitudinal Research Project

1986 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Larose
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cluster Grouping ◽  
Innovative Program ◽  
Title Iii

The Lighthouse Program, a nationally recognized program for gifted students in Racine, Wisconsin, was originally funded as an innovative program through Title III in 1973. At that time, the program personnel began a longitudinal study of the program and its unique features of cluster grouping and quota identification systems. These are described along with preliminary follow up data.

Qualitative longitudinal research: researching fatherhood and fathers’ experiences

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Miller
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Transition To Motherhood ◽  
Transition To Fatherhood ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Made In

This chapter focuses on a qualitative longitudinal (QL) research project, Transition to Fatherhood, and later episodes of fathering and fatherhood experiences. It begins by exploring the research design of this study and considers the inherent gendered and other assumptions made in it, which mirrors an earlier research project on Transition to Motherhood. Following an examination of some of the methodological issues that arose during this qualitative longitudinal study, the chapter turns to reflect on the important question of what adding time into a qualitative study can do. It considers what happens when narratives collected in later interviews are incorporated into earlier analysis and findings as lives and fatherhood experiences change, as well as the benefits of researching individuals over time.

scholarly journals ‘And How Would You Describe Yourself?’ Researchers and Researched in the First Stages of a Qualitative, Longitudinal Research Project

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyn Yates ◽  
Julie McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Secondary Schooling

This article discusses methodological issues and some initial substantive findings from the first two years of the 12 to 18 Educational Research Project. The 12 to 18 Project is a qualitative, longitudinal study of girls and boys from the end of Year 6 and as they proceed through each year of their secondary schooling. The article discusses epistemological and ethical issues related to how and with what implications the researchers ‘construct’ the researched in this long-term empirical study. It then discusses background literature and some initial findings in the three areas with which the project is concerned: the development of gendered subjectivity in the years of secondary school; schools, inequalities, and students' changing relationship to curriculum; and students' changing thinking about their futures.

scholarly journals Does How We Remember Predict How We Will Feel? A Longitudinal Study of the Influence of Overgeneral Memory on the Development of Depression in Young People

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Zara Mansoor
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Overgeneral Memory ◽  
One Year ◽  
Over Time

<p>An increased tendency towards overgeneral memory (OGM) has been associated with depression in young people. How this may impact the early development of depressive symptoms is unclear. This has been difficult to determine due to the lack of longitudinal research in this area, in particular with young people in the community prior to the development of significant depressive symptoms. The current study aimed to investigate how OGM related to the development of depression in a community sample of 235 young people aged 10- to 15-years at baseline. Measures of depression, OGM, and rumination were obtained at baseline and follow-up, one year later. As predicted, and consistent with past findings, an increased tendency towards OGM at follow-up was associated with greater depressive symptoms. However, despite indications from previous work that OGM may also predict depression prior to the emergence of symptoms, the reverse was found with depression predicting OGM over time. This suggests that among the general population, while OGM may be an associated and possible maintaining feature of depression, it appears to be a consequence of experiencing depressive symptoms rather than a significant early predictive or vulnerability factor. Contrary to evidence that rumination may also increase OGM, rumination was not significantly associated with OGM. Limitations, strengths and future directions based on these findings are discussed.</p>

Remission of positive symptoms according to the “remission in Schizophrenia Working Group” criteria: A longitudinal study of cognitive functioning

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 282-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Braw ◽  
R. Sitman ◽  
M. Cohen ◽  
U. Berger ◽  
S. Lev-Ran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Cognitive Impairments ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Longitudinal Research Design ◽  
Symptomatic Remission

AbstractSchizophrenia patients in positive symptomatic remission (PSR; n = 39) were assessed using a longitudinal research design. The patients were found to exhibit widespread cognitive impairments that were stable over the three-year follow-up period. The findings support a generalized and stable cognitive impairment profile among schizophrenia patients in partial symptomatic remission.

scholarly journals Does How We Remember Predict How We Will Feel? A Longitudinal Study of the Influence of Overgeneral Memory on the Development of Depression in Young People

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Zara Mansoor
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Overgeneral Memory ◽  
One Year ◽  
Over Time

<p>An increased tendency towards overgeneral memory (OGM) has been associated with depression in young people. How this may impact the early development of depressive symptoms is unclear. This has been difficult to determine due to the lack of longitudinal research in this area, in particular with young people in the community prior to the development of significant depressive symptoms. The current study aimed to investigate how OGM related to the development of depression in a community sample of 235 young people aged 10- to 15-years at baseline. Measures of depression, OGM, and rumination were obtained at baseline and follow-up, one year later. As predicted, and consistent with past findings, an increased tendency towards OGM at follow-up was associated with greater depressive symptoms. However, despite indications from previous work that OGM may also predict depression prior to the emergence of symptoms, the reverse was found with depression predicting OGM over time. This suggests that among the general population, while OGM may be an associated and possible maintaining feature of depression, it appears to be a consequence of experiencing depressive symptoms rather than a significant early predictive or vulnerability factor. Contrary to evidence that rumination may also increase OGM, rumination was not significantly associated with OGM. Limitations, strengths and future directions based on these findings are discussed.</p>

scholarly journals Do all schizophrenia patients need antipsychotic treatment continuously throughout their lifetime? A 20-year longitudinal study

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 2145-2155 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Harrow ◽  
T. H. Jobe ◽  
R. N. Faull
Keyword(s):  
Prognostic Factors ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Antipsychotic Treatment ◽  
Antipsychotic Medications ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Follow Up Study

BackgroundThe prevailing standard of care in the field involves background assumptions about the importance of prolonged use of antipsychotic medications for all schizophrenia (SZ) patients. However, do all SZ patients need antipsychotics indefinitely? Are there factors that help to identify which SZ patients can enter into prolonged periods of recovery without antipsychotics? This 20-year longitudinal research studied these issues.MethodA total of 139 early young psychotic patients from the Chicago Follow-up Study, including 70 patients with SZ syndromes and 69 with mood disorders, were assessed, prospectively, at the acute phase and then followed up six times over the next 20 years. Patients were assessed with standardized instruments for major symptoms, psychosocial functioning, personality, attitudinal variables, neurocognition and treatment.ResultsAt each follow-up, 30–40% of SZ patients were no longer on antipsychotics. Starting at the 4.5-year follow-ups and continuing thereafter, SZ patients not on antipsychotics for prolonged periods were significantly less likely to be psychotic and experienced more periods of recovery; they also had more favorable risk and protective factors. SZ patients off antipsychotics for prolonged periods did not relapse more frequently.ConclusionsThe data indicate that not all SZ patients need treatment with antipsychotics continuously throughout their lives. SZ patients not on antipsychotics for prolonged periods are a self-selected group with better internal resources associated with greater resiliency. They have better prognostic factors, better pre-morbid developmental achievements, less vulnerability to anxiety, better neurocognitive skills, less vulnerability to psychosis and experience more periods of recovery.

scholarly journals A follow-up study of a longitudinal research on malocclusions and tongue thrust

1975 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Terry Hanson ◽  
◽  
Marvin Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Tongue Thrust

Summary: Ninety-two twelve-year-old subjects were examined for type of swallow and types and degrees of malocclusion. All were subjects who had been chosen at random eight years previously to participate in a longitudinal study of swallowing. Four years had lapsed since the children had been evaluated. Purposes were: (1) to determine incidence of tongue thrust, and (2) to examine relationships between malocclusion and tongue thrust. The incidence of tongue thrust was found to be 48.9%. This was considerably higher than had been expected. It is probable that ten of the 45 with a tongue thrust were transitional thrusters. If these ten were excluded, the incidence would be 38.9%. A chi square formula was used to determine possible relationships between various types and degrees of malocclusions and manner of swallowing. No significant relationships were found. However, all but one of the subjects with overjets of 5mm. or more were tongue thrusters.

The bidirectional association between Internet addiction and depression: a large-sample longitudinal study among Chinese university students (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan-Jun Guo ◽  
Xia Yang ◽  
Yu-Jie Tao ◽  
Ya-Jing Meng ◽  
Hui-Yao Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Causal Relationships ◽  
Depression Severity ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Panel Model ◽  
Bidirectional Association ◽  
Predictive Effect

BACKGROUND Evidence indicates that Internet addiction (IA) is associated with depression, but longitudinal studies have rarely been reported, and no studies have yet investigated potential common vulnerability or a possible specific causal relationship between these disorders. OBJECTIVE To overcome these gaps, the present 12-month longitudinal study based on a large-sample employed a cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) approach to investigate the potential common vulnerability and specific cross-causal relationships between IA and CSD (or depression). METHODS IA and clinically-significant depression (CSD) among 12 043 undergraduates were surveyed at baseline (as freshmen) and in follow-up after 12 months (as sophomores). Application of CLPM revealed two well-fitted design between IA and CSD, and between severities of IA and depression, adjusting for demographics. RESULTS Rates of baseline IA and CSD were 5.47% and 3.85%, respectively; increasing to 9.47% and 5.58%, respectively at follow-up. Among those with baseline IA and CSD, 44.61% and 34.48% remained stable at the time of the follow-up survey, respectively. Rates of new-incidences of IA and CSD over 12 months were 7.43% and 4.47%, respectively. Application of a cross-lagged panel model approach (CLPM, a discrete time structural equation model used primarily to assess causal relationships in real-world settings) revealed two well-fitted design between IA and CSD, and between severities of IA and depression, adjusting for demographics. Models revealed that baseline CSD (or depression severity) had a significant net-predictive effect on follow-up IA (or IA severity), and baseline IA (or IA severity) had a significant net-predictive effect on follow-up CSD (or depression severity). CONCLUSIONS These correlational patterns using a CLPM indicate that both common vulnerability and bidirectional specific cross-causal effects between them may contribute to the association between IA and depression. As the path coefficients of the net-cross-predictive effects were significantly smaller than those of baseline to follow-up cross-section associations, vulnerability may play a more significant role than bidirectional-causal effects. CLINICALTRIAL Ethics Committee of West China Hospital, Sichuan University (NO. 2016-171)

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