Summary information

Study title

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS): Interviews of Teachers of 14-Year-Olds 1974: Text Data

Creator

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

Study number / PID

FSD2307 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2307 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2307 (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, data were collected using teacher ratings, theme interviews (FSD2305), peer nominations (FSD2073), and parent interviews (FSD2074). The teacher interviews covered topics such as the 14-year-olds' school, the size of their class, their characteristics, status, popularity, school success, motivation, learning difficulties, use of alcohol and smoking, and attitude towards punishments. In addition, the teachers were asked whether they knew the 14-year-olds' parents and what the parents' attitude was towards their child's education. The dataset is available only in Finnish.

Methodology

Data collection period

1974

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

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

Sampling procedure

Probability: Cluster: Stratified random

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview: Paper-and-pencil (PAPI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2008

Terms of data access

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

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