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Secondary data analysis : an introduction for psychologists / edited by Kali H. Trzesniewski, M. Brent Donnellan, and Richard E. Lucas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: First editionDescription: x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1433808765
  • 9781433808760
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.721 22
LOC classification:
  • BF39 .S39 2011
Contents:
Getting started : working with secondary data / Amy M. Pienta, JoAnne McFarland O'Rourke, and Melissa M. Franks -- Managing and using secondary data sets with multidisciplinary research teams / J. Douglas Willms -- On creating and using short forms of scales in secondary research / Keith F. Widaman ... [et al.] -- Analyzing survey data with complex sampling designs / Patrick E. Shrout and Jaime L. Napier -- Missing data in secondary data analysis / Patrick E. McKnight and Katherine M. McKnight -- Innovative methods within the context of secondary data : examples from household panel surveys / Thomas Siedler, Jürgen Schupp, and Gert G. Wagner -- The use of secondary data in adult development and aging research / Daniel K. Mroczek ... [et al.] -- Using secondary data to test questions about the genetic basis of behavior / Michelle B. Neiss, Constantine Sedikides, and Jim Stevenson -- Secondary data analysis in psychopathology research / Nicholas R. Eaton and Robert F. Krueger -- Using secondary data to study adolescence and adolescent development / Stephen T. Russell and Eva Matthews -- Using secondary data to advance cross-cultural psychology / Evert Van de Vliert -- Using the American national election study surveys to test social psychological hypotheses / Daniel Schneider, Matthew DeBell, and Jon A. Krosnick -- Family-level variance in verbal ability change in the intergenerational studies / Kevin J. Grimm, John J. McArdle, and Keith F. Widaman.
Summary: "The book is divided into two sections: Part I provides psychologists with a set of accessible methodological primers, including chapters on using short forms of scales; analyzing survey data with complex sampling designs; and dealing with missing data. (Readers are assumed to possess a working knowledge of multivariate analysis.) Chapters in Part II provide compelling examples of secondary data analysis in various kinds of psychological research, including development and aging, behavioral genetics, cross-cultural psychology, and the psychology of political affiliation."--pub. desc.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Getting started : working with secondary data / Amy M. Pienta, JoAnne McFarland O'Rourke, and Melissa M. Franks -- Managing and using secondary data sets with multidisciplinary research teams / J. Douglas Willms -- On creating and using short forms of scales in secondary research / Keith F. Widaman ... [et al.] -- Analyzing survey data with complex sampling designs / Patrick E. Shrout and Jaime L. Napier -- Missing data in secondary data analysis / Patrick E. McKnight and Katherine M. McKnight -- Innovative methods within the context of secondary data : examples from household panel surveys / Thomas Siedler, Jürgen Schupp, and Gert G. Wagner -- The use of secondary data in adult development and aging research / Daniel K. Mroczek ... [et al.] -- Using secondary data to test questions about the genetic basis of behavior / Michelle B. Neiss, Constantine Sedikides, and Jim Stevenson -- Secondary data analysis in psychopathology research / Nicholas R. Eaton and Robert F. Krueger -- Using secondary data to study adolescence and adolescent development / Stephen T. Russell and Eva Matthews -- Using secondary data to advance cross-cultural psychology / Evert Van de Vliert -- Using the American national election study surveys to test social psychological hypotheses / Daniel Schneider, Matthew DeBell, and Jon A. Krosnick -- Family-level variance in verbal ability change in the intergenerational studies / Kevin J. Grimm, John J. McArdle, and Keith F. Widaman.

"The book is divided into two sections: Part I provides psychologists with a set of accessible methodological primers, including chapters on using short forms of scales; analyzing survey data with complex sampling designs; and dealing with missing data. (Readers are assumed to possess a working knowledge of multivariate analysis.) Chapters in Part II provide compelling examples of secondary data analysis in various kinds of psychological research, including development and aging, behavioral genetics, cross-cultural psychology, and the psychology of political affiliation."--pub. desc.

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