RT Research Data T1 Simmons Longitudinal Study: Adaptation and Development Across the Lifespan (New England, United States), Grade 12 Data, Wave 5, 1990 A1 Reinherz, Helen Z. LA English PP Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar PB [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] YR 2009 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1902791177 AB

The Simmons Longitudinal Study (SLS) is a community-based study that has prospectively traced the life course of a single-aged cohort from childhood (age 5) to adulthood (age 26). Data were collected from multiple informants at seven major time points: age 5 (1977), age 6 (1978), age 9 (1980-1981), age 15 (1987), age 18 (1990), age 21 (1993-1994), and age 26 (1998). Since its inception in 1977, the SLS has utilized a multidisciplinary, multimethod approach, with the dual goals of: (1) tracing the development and course of academic difficulties, behavior problems, and psychopathology; and (2) identifying factors that promote health functioning from early childhood (age 5) to adulthood (age 26). The SLS has consistently emphasized the identification of modifiable social and environmental risk and protective factors that can be targeted directly in prevention and intervention programs. To date, SLS has published 50 journal articles and 9 book chapters. The original study group was comprised of every child who entered kindergarten in the fall of 1977 in one public school district in a northeastern town in the United States. For this wave of the study, Wave 5, researchers revisited with study participants in 1990 when they were 18 years old and most were seniors in high school thinking about future plans for work and education. The interviews gathered information on future goals, behavioral and emotional adjustment, current social and interpersonal functioning, and mental health problems such as depression, and substance abuse and dependence.

K1 Academic Achievement K1 Achievement K1 Adolescents K1 Attitudes K1 behavior problems K1 Body Image K1 dating (social) K1 demographic characteristics K1 Education K1 Family Relations K1 financial support K1 friendships K1 Health K1 health problems K1 High school students K1 household composition K1 Human Behavior K1 life events K1 Life History K1 Mental Health K1 Mental Health Services K1 parental attitudes K1 Parents K1 self evaluation K1 Social issues K1 Social Support K1 student behavior K1 student evaluation K1 Substance Abuse K1 Forschungsdaten DO 10.3886/ICPSR24864.v1