Summary information

Study title

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS): Life Situation Questionnaire of 42-Year-Olds 2001

Creator

Pulkkinen, Lea (University of Jyväskylä. Department of Psychology) - 0000-0002-4290-6690
Kinnunen, Ulla (University of Jyväskylä. Department of Psychology) - 0000-0002-2578-7271
Kokko, Katja (University of Jyväskylä. Department of Psychology) - 0000-0002-8747-2080

Study number / PID

FSD2002 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2002 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2002 (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, the lives of 42-year-olds were surveyed in terms of family, work, health, and leisure. In addition, this research stage includes an interview, self-ratings based on various tests and methods, personality tests, a life history calendar, and a thorough medical examination. In order to enable comparisons, the questions in the life situation questionnaire of 42-year-olds are mostly the same as in those of 27 and 36-year-olds, which the respondents completed at earlier research stages. First, the respondents were asked questions on their education, work, sick leaves, and time allocated to housework. Further questions pertained to the respondents' parents, couple relationship, spouse's work, number of children, household composition, housing, and finances. 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 exercising. They were also asked to prioritise various things (e.g. family, friends, work or studies, hobbies, home) in order of importance. Satisfaction with leisure time activities and friendships were canvassed. Views on the use of mobile phones, computers, and email were also probed. Some questions pertained to the respondents' use of alcohol, smoking, health, and social support received. The importance of various things including art, technology, religion, and social work was examined. The respondents' self-image and satisfaction with themselves were also surveyed, as well as their personal development goals and personality traits. In addition, they were asked whether they had obtained their goals in life, whether they generally looked at various things trustingly, whether they had a...
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Methodology

Data collection period

11/2000 - 2001

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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