Project Details
Projekt
Prospective longitudinal cohort study from middle childhood to adolescence: The PIER study as a central survey project
Applicant
Professorin Dr. Petra Warschburger
Subject Area
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
Term
since 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 426314138
Self-regulation (SR) is a central psychological resource that enables individuals to react adequately to a variety of situational demands and succesfully pursue their own goals. Accordingly, SR is linked to a wide range of positive developmental outcomes. The common goal of FOR 5034 is the prospective analysis of the development of basal and complex SR facets, taking into account peer-related contextual factors and their contribution to explaining specific developmental outcomes from middle childhood (T1, 6-10 years) to late adolescence (T4 in FP1) or young adulthood (18-23 years in FP2). The central survey project is responsible for the generation, maintenance and docu-mentation of the jointly used longitudinal data set including the necessary organisation and admin-istration. The multimodal and multimethodological survey approach of the previous individual tests is to be continued and a low dropout guaranteed. Altogether, a prospective longitudinal study with N = 1,657 children and three surveys (6-10, 7-11, 9-13 years) is available, who are to be contacted and comprehensively interviewed for a further survey in adolescence (15-20 years, expected sample size: n = 1,074). The tests will be carried out in individual sessions and parents will also be asked for their assessments. The focus is on the measurement of basal (inhibition, executive working memory/updating, cognitive flexibility, heart rate variability as well as emotional reactivity) and complex SR facets (emotion regulation, cognitive regulation, behavioral regulation such as delayed gratification, planning behavior and impulsiveness). Regarding the effects of SR, the focus has been and continuous to be on a broad range of behavioral areas and developmental requirements that are particularly relevant to adolescence, such as antisocial behavior, moral and identity devel-opment, disordered eating behavior or internalizing problems. The survey includes anthropometric (weight; height) and physiological measurements (heart rate variability, behavioral tests as well as self-reports and informant-ratings (questionnaires, interviews)). The cooperation of all subprojects in terms of content will enable a comprehensive prospective data set to be generated.
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