ASSESSING LONGITUDINAL CHANGE IN MARRIAGE - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF GROWTH-CURVES

Citation
Br. Karney et Tn. Bradbury, ASSESSING LONGITUDINAL CHANGE IN MARRIAGE - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF GROWTH-CURVES, Journal of marriage and the family, 57(4), 1995, pp. 1091-1108
Citations number
55
Categorie Soggetti
Family Studies",Sociology
ISSN journal
00222445
Volume
57
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1091 - 1108
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-2445(1995)57:4<1091:ALCIM->2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Current approaches to analyzing longitudinal data in marital research are limited because they make use of only two waves of data at a time, thus yielding incomplete and potentially inaccurate descriptions of h ow marriages change, The purpose of this article is to introduce marit al researchers to the analysis of individual growth curves. This techn ique uses multiwave longitudinal data to estimate parameters of change within individuals before accounting for variability in change betwee n individuals, A step-by-step guide to this procedure is presented, fo llowed by a discussion of its advantages and implications for longitud inal research on marriage.