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
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.