Summary information

Study title

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS): Self-Ratings and Free Time Activities of 20-Year-Olds 1980

Creator

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

Study number / PID

FSD2097 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2097 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2097 (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. In this data collection wave, some of the respondents, who were 20 years old at the time, were invited to participate in a theme interview. This dataset contains three self-rating questionnaires and a free time activity questionnaire presented to the respondents in connection with the interview. First, the respondents evaluated their own behaviour with the help of attitudinal statements and adjectives (e.g. "energetic", "stable", "submissive", and "conventional"). There were also eight questions on behaviour that corresponded to the peer nominations and teacher ratings conducted with the respondents at the ages of 8 and 14 (see datasets FSD2059 and FSD2073). In these questions, the respondents evaluated themselves from three different angles: what they were like at the time of the study, what they would want to be like, and what they should be like. The questions charted, for example, social activity, aggressiveness, and compliance. The respondents were asked about their free time activities and hobbies, including various sports, going to theatre or concerts, painting, photographing, writing, reading, singing in a choir, playing bingo, doing crossword puzzles, motoring, collecting stamps, spending time in bars or at friends' homes, participating in political or religious voluntary organisations, and studying in evening classes or adult education centres. The background variables included the respondent's gender.

Methodology

Data collection period

1980

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 and had belonged to extreme groups of social behaviour at ages 8 and 14.

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

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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