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The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) program provides data about the development of children in the United States. [1] It is carried out by the Institute of Education Sciences. It provides data on children's status at birth and at various points thereafter.
A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel study) is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables (e.g., people) over long periods of time (i.e., uses longitudinal data). It is often a type of observational study, although it can also be structured as longitudinal randomized experiment. [1]
[2] [3] [4] The study found that many children exposed to reproductive and environmental risk factors (for instance, premature birth coupled with an unstable household and a mentally ill mother) go on to experience more problems with delinquency, mental and physical health and family stability than children exposed to fewer such risk factors.
Numerous studies indicate impaired development, while many others find no effect of depression on development. [163] [164] A study of 18-month-olds whose mothers had depressive symptoms while the children were 6 weeks and/or 6 months old found that maternal depression had no effect on the child's cognitive development. Furthermore, the study ...
The Genetic Studies of Genius, later known as the Terman Study of the Gifted, [1] is currently the oldest and longest-running longitudinal study in the field of psychology. . It was begun by Lewis Terman at Stanford University in 1921 to examine the development and characteristics of gifted children into adultho
The study consisted of 682 individuals over 40 years of age enrolled in the Framingham Health Study, a multi-generational longitudinal study designed to examine the risk factors for cardiovascular ...
Whether or not normal intelligence increases or decreases with age depends on the measure and study. Longitudinal studies show that perceptual speed, inductive reasoning, and spatial orientation decline. [152] An article on adult cognitive development reports that cross-sectional studies show that "some abilities remained stable into early old ...
“Longitudinal cohort studies tracking the mental health of individuals taking antipsychotics over time compared to controls will provide valuable information, but would take years to complete.“