Summary information

Study title

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS): Life Situation Questionnaire of 50-Year-Olds 2009

Creator

Pulkkinen, Lea (University of Jyväskylä. Department of Psychology) - 0000-0002-4290-6690
Kinnunen, Marja-Liisa (University of Jyväskylä. Department of Psychology)
Kokko, Katja (University of Jyväskylä. Department of Psychology) - 0000-0002-8747-2080

Study number / PID

FSD2615 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2615 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2615 (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 40 years. At this research stage, the lives of 50-year-olds were surveyed in terms of family, work, health, and leisure. In addition to the Life Situation Questionnaire, this research stage includes an interview, self-ratings based on various tests and methods, personality tests, a life history calendar, a medical examination and laboratory tests. In order to enable comparisons, the questions in the Life Situation Questionnaire of 50-year-olds are mostly the same as in those of 27, 36 and 42-year-olds, which the respondents completed at earlier research stages. First, the respondents were asked questions on their education, work situation, unemployment periods, sick leaves, satisfaction with work and time allocated to housework. Further questions pertained to R's parents, couple relationship, spouse's work, number of children and grandchildren, household composition, housing, and finances. The respondents were asked to what extent they agreed with statements relating to parents' responsibility for their offspring and young people in general, and for the state of the world. In relation to leisure, the respondents indicated how often they spent time with their children. Further questions covered reading books, watching television, participating in voluntary organisations, going to movies, doing handicraft, and physical exercise. They were also asked to prioritise various things (e.g. family, friends, work or studies, hobbies, home). Satisfaction with leisure time activities and friendships were canvassed. Views on the use of mobile phones, computers and the relationship to Internet were also probed. Some questions pertained to the respondents' alcohol use, smoking, psychosocial health (GHQ-12), self-perceived health in general and social support received. The respondents' self-image and satisfaction with...
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/2009 - 05/2010

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

2011

Terms of data access

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

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