Methods and models for studying the individual : essays in honor of Marian Radke-Yarrow / edited by Robert B. Cairns, Lars R. Bergman, Jerome Kagan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Radke-Yarrow, Marian, 1918-2007.

Cairns, Robert B., 1933-1999.

Bergman, Lars R.

Kagan, Jerome.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental psychology.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1998]

Summary:

An international cast of the top names in developmental research explores how researchers can use group data to understand individual patterns and pathways over time. The dominant statistical models and sampling methods do not accurately reflect and capture the way in which individuals change, but rather statistically treat the individual as an unchanging constant (e.g., as if a 2-year-old's personality is identical to that of a 30-year-old). After an introduction to this methodological dilemma, Robert Hinde shows how empirical procedures can be employed in a stepwise progression to permit a focus on individual children and lead to greater insight. In the next chapter, David Magnusson explains how individuals, rather than variables, are either stable or unstable over time, and how to adjust analysis to reflect this. Lars Bergman then identifies and discusses the assumptions by which a pattern-oriented approach can be employed to study individual development over time. Subsequent chapters cover the value of methodological focus on extreme groups, such as fearful and very exuberant children (Jerome Kagan & colleagues); the need to sample across contexts and be sensitive to the exclusion/inclusion of extreme children (Stevenson-Hinde); ways to analyze personality changes over time, particularly in reaction to stress (Robins, John & Caspi); how predictive correlation may be due to the continuities in a few extreme cases (Pulkkinen); how to combine the strengths of variable-oriented and categorical procedures to achieve focus on individuals (Loeber & colleagues); how to correlate retrospective reports with actual events (Rutter & colleagues); and how developmental methods can be brought into line with the study of individual pathways (Cairns & Rodkin). Each chapter is followed by a commentary and discussion by Marian Radke Yarrow.

Contents:

1 Lawfulness in Individual Development / Robert B. Cairns, Jerome Kagan, Lars R. Bergman 1

2 Through Categories Toward Individuals: Attempting to Tease Apart the Data / Robert A. Hinde 11

3 The Logic and Implications of a Person-Oriented Approach / David Magnusson 33

4 The Value of Extreme Groups / Jerome Kagan, Nancy Snidman, Doreen Arcus 65

5 A Pattern-Oriented Approach to Studying Individual Development: Snapshots and Processes / Lars R. Bergman 83

6 The Individual in Context / Joan Stevenson-Hinde 123

7 The Typological Approach to Studying Personality / Richard W. Robins, Oliver P. John, Avshalom Caspi 135

8 Levels of Longitudinal Data Differing in Complexity and the Study of Continuity in Personality Characteristics / Lea Pulkkinen 161

9 A Prospective Replication of Developmental Pathways in Disruptive and Delinquent Behavior / Rolf Loeber, Mary S. DeLamatre, Kate Keenan, Quanwu Zhang 185

10 Retrospective Recall Recalled / Sir Michael Rutter, Barbara Maughan, Andrew Pickles, Emily Simonoff 219

11 Phenomena Regained: From Configurations to Pathways / Robert B. Cairns, Philip C. Rodkin 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-292) and index.

ISBN:

076191451X

0761914528

OCLC:

39157484