Summary information

Study title

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS): Life Situation Questionnaire of 36-Year-Olds 1995

Creator

Pulkkinen, Lea (University of Jyväskylä. Department of Psychology) - 0000-0002-4290-6690

Study number / PID

FSD2005 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2005 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2005 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS)

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development was initiated as Lea Pulkkinen's doctoral dissertation in 1968. Since then, the study has continued to follow the same individuals for over 40 years. When the project was launched, 369 eight-year-old children participated in the research. They were randomly selected among second-graders in primary school. After the first research, data have been collected when the respondents have been 14, 20, 27, 33, 36, 42, 50, and 60 years old. The latest data collection started in 2020. When the respondents were still in school, the...

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Abstract

The data are part of the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS), in which the same individuals have been followed over 30 years. At this research stage, the life situation of 36-year-olds was charted. In addition, this research stage includes an interview, self-ratings based on various tests and methods, and personality tests. In order to enable comparisons, the questions in the life situation questionnaire of 36-year-olds are mostly the same as in the life situation questionnaire of 27-year-olds, which the respondents completed at an earlier research stage. First, the respondents' family relations were canvassed. They were asked about their marital status, household size, housing tenure, received government subsidies, loans, number of children, and the size of the place of residence. In addition, they responded questions on financial situation, education, occupation, employment, unemployment, and satisfaction with income level. In relation to leisure, the respondents indicated how often they spent time with their children. Further questions covered reading books, watching television, seeing relatives, participating in voluntary organisations, going to theatre, concerts or restaurants, doing handicraft, and physical exercising. They were also asked to prioritise various things (e.g. family, friends and work) in order of importance. Satisfaction with leisure time activities and friendships were also canvassed. Further questions pertained to the respondents' use of alcohol, smoking, mental wellbeing, and health. The importance of politics, art, science, technology, religion, and economic life was examined. The respondents' self-image and satisfaction with themselves were also surveyed, as well as their personal development goals. In addition, they were asked whether they had obtained their goals in life, whether they generally looked at various things trustingly, whether they had a strong will, and whether they felt desperate....
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Methodology

Data collection period

05/1995 - 06/1995

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Persons who were second grade students in a school in Jyväskylä at the time of the first data collection in 1968 and who continued to participate in the longitudinal study. The sample was collected both from the town centre and suburbs.

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2007

Terms of data access

The dataset is (D) available only by permission from the data depositor/creator.

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