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Contribution to Book
Longitudinal methods
Handbook of multimethod measurement in psychology (2005)
  • Siek Toon Khoo, ACER
  • Stephen G West
  • Wei Wu
  • Oi Man Kwok
Abstract

This chapter looks at the psychological measurement of the same set of participants on multiple occasions, ideally using the same (or equivalent) measurement instruments. Longitudinal designs explicitly determine the temporal ordering of the observations. This temporal ordering of observations provides an enhanced ability to elucidate stability and change in individuals over time, to study time-related processes, and to establish the direction of hypothesised causal relationships.

Publication Date
2005
Editor
Michael Eid and Ed Diener
Publisher
American Psychological Association
ISBN
1591473187
Citation Information
Siek Toon Khoo, Stephen G West, Wei Wu and Oi Man Kwok. "Longitudinal methods" Washington DCHandbook of multimethod measurement in psychology (2005)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/siek_toon_khoo/8/