Summary information

Study title

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS): Interviews of the Parents of 14-Year-Olds 1974

Creator

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

Study number / PID

FSD2074 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2074 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2074 (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, 14-year-olds' social behaviour and living circumstances were explored. The research stage also includes peer nominations, teacher ratings, interviews of 14-year-olds, and interviews of their parents. This data include the interviews of the parents. The themes included family and its common activities, as well as the schooling and leisure of the 14-year-old. No predetermined response categories were used. The recorded interviews were classified only afterwards, when it was possible to observe the whole range of responses. The interviews of 14-year-olds and their parents were structured and conducted similarly. First, the parents were asked about housing and the size, condition, and ownership of their place of residence. They were also asked whether the family liked their home, and whether there was enough room for the children's activities. Opinions on the living environment, alternative leisure activities, and services were charted. The interviewees were asked whether their family went out together to the theatre, library, sports events, etc. The parents' own hobbies, as well as their attitudes to their child's hobbies and friends were queried. The interviewees were also asked whether they restricted their child's leisure activities, whether they had visitors often, and whether their child was allowed to bring his/her friends home. In relation to work, the respondents were asked whether both parents worked, what kind of working hours they had, whether they liked their job, and how they had organised their housework. They were also asked whether their working hours had affected their family, whether all family members participated in housework, and how child day care was organised in the family. The health of the family members and the effects of potential diseases or accidents...
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Methodology

Data collection period

1974

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 in the town centre and suburbs.

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration
Non-probability: Purposive

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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