Big news stories and longitudinal data collection: A prominent child sexual abuse case negatively affects parents’ attitudes toward male caregivers

Consumption of news media can influence attitudes toward specific groups, but the influence of news media on longitudinal data collection has not yet been researched. We present a method to index media attention on a specific topic, as well as a case study on a big child sexual abuse (CSA) story and its effect on parents’ attitudes toward male childcare professionals in a longitudinal study with fathers and mothers of 207 Dutch families. Questionnaire data on attitudes toward gender-differentiated parenting were collected in four annual waves between 2010 and 2014. NexisUni® Academic database was used to index articles on CSA to chart patterns of media attention before and during that time span. There was an immediate increase in media attention, the amount of articles on CSA doubled, as well as a prolonged increase in attention which culminated during the second wave of the study. In the first wave, 97 of the families participated before the CSA case became known, and 110 participated afterward. Parents who participated after the first news about the case came out reported a more negative attitude toward hiring a male babysitter than those who participated before it. This effect was stronger for mothers. The negative effect on attitude endured during the subsequent waves for all fathers and for those mothers who participated before the news broke. Findings indicate that big news stories influence attitudes that lasts over time and can therefore influence longitudinal data. Further analysis suggests that the influence of news stories is gendered, as mothers showed a recovery in their attitudes over time while fathers did not. We recommend further research on the effect of news on attitude and behavioral measures in longitudinal research.

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Early Development Of The Speech And Gesture System: The Relationship Between Rhythmic Arm Activity And Reduplicated Babble

10.32920/ryerson.14645061 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Chastine Lamoureux

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Longitudinal Data ◽

File Sharing ◽

Longitudinal Data Collection ◽

Audio Recordings ◽

Simultaneous Process ◽

Observational Design ◽

Video And Audio ◽

The Relationship ◽

Over Time

The development of the speech-gesture system was examined by evaluating the relationship between rhythmic arm activity (RAA) and reduplicated babble (RB). Using a novel longitudinal observational design, infants were observed in-home weekly, for twelve weeks playing with a rattle (22 to 34 weeks old). Video and audio-recordings were submitted by caregivers via a secure file-sharing service. The design was an effective alternative for longitudinal data collection in infant studies. RAA and RB were positively correlated, and infants exhibited greater amounts of tightly synchronized vocal-manual coordination (VMC) over time. Infant threshold was not a significant predictor of RB or VMC, and babble onset did not significantly predict the frequency or the type of VMC. Trajectory analyses revealed synchronous change across RAA, RB, and VMC. Findings suggest the linkage between RB and RAA is not sequential; but is a simultaneous process representing a moment of re-organization to the maturing speech-gesture system.

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Following resettled people over time: the value of longitudinal data collection for understanding the livelihood impacts of the Three Gorges Dam, China

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal ◽

10.1080/14615517.2016.1271542 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 94-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Brooke Wilmsen ◽

Andrew van Hulten

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Longitudinal Data ◽

Three Gorges Dam ◽

Three Gorges ◽

The Three Gorges ◽

Longitudinal Data Collection ◽

The Three Gorges Dam ◽

Over Time

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Early Development Of The Speech And Gesture System: The Relationship Between Rhythmic Arm Activity And Reduplicated Babble

10.32920/ryerson.14645061.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Chastine Lamoureux

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Longitudinal Data ◽

File Sharing ◽

Longitudinal Data Collection ◽

Audio Recordings ◽

Simultaneous Process ◽

Observational Design ◽

Video And Audio ◽

The Relationship ◽

Over Time

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Solutions for latent growth modeling following COVID-19-related discontinuities in change and disruptions in longitudinal data collection

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/01650254211031631 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 016502542110316

Author(s):

Charlie Rioux ◽

Zachary L. Stickley ◽

Todd D. Little

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Longitudinal Data ◽

Growth Models ◽

Simulated Data ◽

The Novel ◽

Latent Growth ◽

Latent Growth Models ◽

Longitudinal Data Collection ◽

Novel Coronavirus ◽

Over Time

Following the onset of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, daily life significantly changed for the population. Accordingly, researchers interested in examining patterns of change over time may now face discontinuities around the pandemic. Researchers collecting in-person longitudinal data also had to cancel or delay data collection waves, further complicating analyses. Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to aid researchers aiming to examine latent growth models (LGM) in analyzing their data following COVID-19. An overview of basic LGM notions, LGMs with discontinuities, and solutions for studies that had to cancel or delay data collection waves are discussed and exemplified using simulated data. Syntax for R and Mplus is available to readers in online supplemental materials.

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Coping with longitudinal data in research on developmental psychopathology

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/0165025406059969 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 20-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

David A. Cole

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Longitudinal Data ◽

Developmental Psychopathology ◽

Careful Consideration ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

The Other ◽

Outcome Variable ◽

The Third ◽

Data Analytic ◽

Over Time

Many outcome variables in developmental psychopathology research are highly stable over time. In conventional longitudinal data analytic approaches such as multiple regression, controlling for prior levels of the outcome variable often yields little (if any) reliable variance in the dependent variable for putative predictors to explain. Three strategies for coping with this problem are described. One involves focusing on developmental periods of transition, in which the outcome of interest may be less stable. A second is to give careful consideration to the amount of time allowed to elapse between waves of data collection. The third is to consider trait-state-occasion models that partition the outcome variable into two dimensions: one entirely stable and trait-like, the other less stable and subject to occasion-specific fluctuations.

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Constructing undesirables: A critical discourse analysis of othering of Fulani nomads in the Ghanaian news media

Discourse & Communication ◽

10.1177/1750481320982095 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 175048132098209

Author(s):

Mark Nartey ◽

Hans J Ladegaard

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

News Media ◽

Public Debate ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Analysis Framework ◽

News Reporting ◽

Media Attention ◽

News Stories ◽

Content Organization

The activities of Fulani nomads in Ghana have gained considerable media attention and engendered continuing public debate. In this paper, we analyze the prejudiced portrayals of the nomads in the Ghanaian news media, and how these contribute to an exclusionist and a discriminatory discourse that puts the nomads at the margins of Ghanaian society. The study employs a critical discourse analysis framework and draws on a dataset of 160 articles, including news stories, editorials and op-ed pieces. The analysis reveals that the nomads are discursively constructed as undesirables through an othering process that centers on three discourses: a discourse of dangerousness/criminalization, a discourse of alienization, and a discourse of stigmatization. This anti-nomad/Fulani rhetoric is evident in the choice of sensational headlines, alarmist news content, organization of arguments, and use of quotations. The paper concludes with a call for more balanced and critical news reporting on the nomads, especially since issues surrounding them border on national cohesion and security.

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Remembering the News: Effects of Medium and Message Discrepancy on News Recall over Time

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly ◽

10.1177/107769909507200316 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 72 (3) ◽

pp. 666-681 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Robert H. Wicks

Keyword(s):

Associative Memory ◽

News Media ◽

Common Knowledge ◽

Theoretical Explanation ◽

Important Variable ◽

News Stories ◽

New Information ◽

News Effects ◽

Over Time ◽

Better Than

This article suggests a theoretical explanation of the processes related to recall and learning of media news information. It does so by linking the concepts of schematic thinking and the Search of Associative Memory (SAM) to the variable of time. It argues that learning from the news may be better than many recent studies suggest. Although humans may have trouble recalling discrete news stories in recall examinations, it seems likely that they acquire “common knowledge” from the news media. Time is an important variable in helping people to remember news if they use it to think about new information in the context of previously stored knowledge.

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The Young Netherlands Twin Register (YNTR): Longitudinal Twin and Family Studies in Over 70,000 Children

Twin Research and Human Genetics ◽

10.1017/thg.2012.118 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 252-267 ◽

Cited By ~ 124

Author(s):

Catharina E. M. van Beijsterveldt ◽

Maria Groen-Blokhuis ◽

Jouke Jan Hottenga ◽

Sanja Franić ◽

James J. Hudziak ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Behavior Problems ◽

Longitudinal Data ◽

Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽

Birth Mothers ◽

Older Parents ◽

Subject Recruitment ◽

Longitudinal Data Collection ◽

Adolescent Twins

The Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) began in 1987 with data collection in twins and their families, including families with newborn twins and triplets. Twenty-five years later, the NTR has collected at least one survey for 70,784 children, born after 1985. For the majority of twins, longitudinal data collection has been done by age-specific surveys. Shortly after giving birth, mothers receive a first survey with items on pregnancy and birth. At age 2, a survey on growth and achievement of milestones is sent. At ages 3, 7, 9/10, and 12 parents and teachers receive a series of surveys that are targeted at the development of emotional and behavior problems. From age 14 years onward, adolescent twins and their siblings report on their behavior problems, health, and lifestyle. When the twins are 18 years and older, parents are also invited to take part in survey studies. In sub-groups of different ages, in-depth phenotyping was done for IQ, electroencephalography , MRI, growth, hormones, neuropsychological assessments, and cardiovascular measures. DNA and biological samples have also been collected and large numbers of twin pairs and parents have been genotyped for zygosity by either micro-satellites or sets of short nucleotide polymorphisms and repeat polymorphisms in candidate genes. Subject recruitment and data collection is still ongoing and the longitudinal database is growing. Data collection by record linkage in the Netherlands is beginning and we expect these combined longitudinal data to provide increased insights into the genetic etiology of development of mental and physical health in children and adolescents.

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Developing and Validating a Novel Anonymous Method for Matching Longitudinal School-Based Data

Educational and Psychological Measurement ◽

10.1177/0013164420938457 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 001316442093845 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jon Agley ◽

David Tidd ◽

Mikyoung Jun ◽

Lori Eldridge ◽

Yunyu Xiao ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Longitudinal Data ◽

Willingness To Participate ◽

Identification Code ◽

School Based ◽

Birth Month ◽

Longitudinal Data Collection ◽

Standard Solution ◽

Prospective Longitudinal ◽

Collection Methods

Prospective longitudinal data collection is an important way for researchers and evaluators to assess change. In school-based settings, for low-risk and/or likely-beneficial interventions or surveys, data quality and ethical standards are both arguably stronger when using a waiver of parental consent—but doing so often requires the use of anonymous data collection methods. The standard solution to this problem has been the use of a self-generated identification code. However, such codes often incorporate personalized elements (e.g., birth month, middle initial) that, even when meeting the technical standard for anonymity, may raise concerns among both youth participants and their parents, potentially altering willingness to participate, response quality, or generating outrage. There may be value, therefore, in developing a self-generated identification code and matching approach that not only is technically anonymous but also appears anonymous to a research-naive individual. This article provides a proof of concept for a novel matching approach for school-based longitudinal data collection that potentially accomplishes this goal.

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