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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.

Table of 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.

Contributors:

Trzesniewski, Kali H.

Donnellan, M. Brent

Lucas, Richard E. (Richard Eric), 1971-

American Psychological Association

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Psychology — Methodology

Psychometrics

Psychology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Call Numbers:

BF39 .S39 2011

ISBNs:

9781433808760 (print)
1433808765 (print)
9781433808777 (electronic)
1433808773 (electronic)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010010687

OCLC Numbers:

606051658