Summary information

Study title

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS): Personality Test and TV Viewing of 33-Year-Olds 1992

Creator

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

Study number / PID

FSD2096 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2096 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2096 (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 data collection wave the subjects completed the NESTA personality inventory and a TV viewing questionnaire. NESTA is an official adapted version of the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI), which is developed for assessing five personality traits considered universal: neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. In the adapted version, one fourth of the original American questions are replaced by Finnish counterparts. The test contains 181 statements, which are answered using a 5-point Likert scale (strongly agree - strongly disagree). The respondents' TV viewing was charted by asking them to indicate how often they watched various programmes (e.g. news, sports programmes, family and relationship movies) aired by particular channels. They were also asked questions on watching different cable and satellite channels and videos. The respondents estimated their average daily TV viewing time on weekdays and weekends. They were also presented with a set of attitudinal statements on various motives and needs connected to watching TV. In addition, they told what kind of programmes they would want to see more on TV. Background variables included the respondent's gender, marital status, education, socioeconomic status, and the year of birth of children living in R's household.

Methodology

Data collection period

1992

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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