Intensive Longitudinal Methods: An Introduction to Diary and Experience Sampling Research

This book offers a complete, practical guide to doing an intensive longitudinal study with individuals, dyads, or groups. It provides the tools for studying social, psychological, and physiological processes in everyday contexts, using methods such as diary and experience sampling. A range of engaging, worked-through research examples with datasets are featured. Coverage includes how to: select the best intensive longitudinal design for a particular research question, apply multilevel models to within-subject designs, model within-subject change processes for continuous and categorical outcomes, assess the reliability of within-subject changes, assure sufficient statistical power, and more. Several end-of-chapter write-ups illustrate effective ways to present study findings for publication. Datasets and output in SPSS, SAS, Mplus, HLM, MLwiN, and R for the examples are available on the companion website (www.intensivelongitudinal.com).Additional ISBNs9781462506910, 9781283976305Intensive Longitudinal Methods: An Introduction to Diary and Experience Sampling Research is written by Niall Bolger; Jean-Philippe Laurenceau and published by The Guilford Press. ISBNs for Intensive Longitudinal Methods are 9781462506927, 1462506925 and the print ISBNs are 9781462506781, 146250678X. Additional ISBNs include 9781462506910, 9781283976305.