Summary information

Study title

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS): Interview of 20-Year-Olds 1980: Text Data

Creator

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

Study number / PID

FSD2202 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2202 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2202 (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 self-rating questionnaires, a free time activity questionnaire, and an interview. This dataset contains the transcribed responses to the questions presented in the interview. The responses have been categorised by theme; some have been recorded as such whereas others have been condensed. The dataset FSD2125 Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS): Interviews of 20-Year-Olds 1980 includes the numerically classified responses. The interview topics corresponded to the themes in the interviews of 14-year-olds. Topics covered family, relationship with parents, upbringing received, becoming independent, relationship with peers and the opposite sex, use of alcohol and drugs, education, identity, and future expectations.

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. The sample was collected both from the town centre and suburbs.

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Qualitative

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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