Where Are They Now? Locating Former Elementary-School Students after Nearly 40 Years for a Longitudinal Study of Personality and Health

Hampson, Sarah E.; Dubanoski, Joan P.; Hamada, Winter C.; Marsella, Anthony J.; Matsukawa, Jennifer M.; Suarez, Edward C.; Goldberg, Lewis R.

doi:10.1006/jrpe.2001.2317

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“…Although we interviewed a smaller percentage of respondents than we had hoped, our response rate compares favorably to the one other study we identified that was similar to our study. Hampson et al (2001) report interviewing 62 percent of those located, thus making their response rate 47 percent (62 percent multiplied by 75 percent located, which we cited earlier).…”

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“…When we began our study and reviewed the literature on longitudinal studies, there were no other reports of studies using computerized or Internet sources of information. Only after we completed our data collection and were writing up the results of our search process did we find other studies that used some similar sources of information (Hampson et al 2001;Lyons et al 2004). Hampson et al's (2001) study, in particular, had many parallels to our study-they searched for 2,000 students between 1998 and 2000 who were first interviewed in elementary school in the 1960s on two Hawaiian islands.…”

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Longitudinal Research at the Turn of the Century

Ortiz

Ballón

2007

Sociological Methods & Research

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Longitudinal studies provide useful and unique data for social science research but are labor intensive and expensive. Key to conducting a successful longitudinal study is the ability to locate respondents in the follow-up effort. We conducted a 35-year longitudinal study among Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, California, and San Antonio, Texas. In this article, the authors describe (a) the individualized approach used in searching and (b) how recent technological developments have provided extensive sources of information that facilitated the searching process. The authors locate 79 percent of their sample. This study differs from previous longitudinal studies in that (a) the population is ethnic, urban, and working class; (b) more than 30 years had passed since the original study; (c) the authors built on a study not originally designed as a longitudinal effort; and (d) there had been no contact with respondents in the intervening period.

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Longitudinal Research at the Turn of the Century

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Ballón

2007

Sociological Methods & Research

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“…NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript assessments were undertaken over a four-year period (1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002) after an interval of 35 -43 years (Hampson et al, 2001). Consequently, these data offer an extraordinary opportunity to examine the question of personality stability from childhood to midlife with measures of the five-factor model of personality at each time point.…”

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“…The details of our location and recruitment procedures are described in Hampson et al (2001). As the adult participants are recruited for the project, they are periodically mailed a series of questionnaires, and they are invited to attend a half-day session at a medical setting where they complete an extensive battery of physical, medical, personality, and cognitive measures.…”

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“…Nor is bias likely to be much of a problem, with the possible exception of Conscientiousness, where predictably the adult samples are about a tenth of a standard deviation higher than the cohort mean. In evaluating this small effect, one must keep in mind that it is probably at least partially artifactual, because we know from previous studies (e.g., Friedman et al, 1995) and from prior analyses of our own cohort (Hampson et al, 2001) that early mortality is associated with low childhood Conscientiousness; thus, at least some of the children who were seen by their teachers as low in conscientiousness are likely to no longer be available for adult recruitment.…”

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A first large cohort study of personality trait stability over the 40 years between elementary school and midlife.

Hampson¹,

Goldberg²

2006

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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This report provides some initial findings from an investigation of the relations between childhood Big Five personality traits assessed by elementary-school teachers and similar traits assessed 40 years later by self-reports at midlife. Our analyses are based on data from a relatively large and culturally diverse sample (N = 799) that was first assessed between 1959 and 1967 when the participants were children in Hawaii. Short-term (1-3 years) test retest reliabilities were lower (.22 -.53) within childhood when personality is developing than within adulthood (.70 -.79) when personality stability may be at its peak. Stability coefficients across the 40-year interval between the childhood assessment and two measures of adulthood personality were higher for Extraversion (e.g., .29) and Conscientiousness (e.g., .25) than for Openness (e.g., .16), Agreeableness (e.g., .08) and Neuroticism (e.g., .00). Construct continuity between childhood and adulthood was evaluated by canonical analysis and by structural-equation modeling and indicated continuity at both a broad, twodimensional level and at the level of the Big Five. The findings are discussed in relation to Caspi, Roberts, and Shiner's (2005) principles of rank-order personality stability.Keywords personality stability; Big Five; construct continuity; longitudinal study The extent to which child personality is predictive of adult personality has long been a fundamental scientific, philosophical, and even poetic question. Wordsworth's "The child is father of the man" and Milton's "The child shows the man, as morning shows the day" are not unambiguous. Neither poet was necessarily suggesting perfect correspondence and complete predictability from youth to maturity. Similarly, the stability of personality characteristics over the life course remains a controversial empirical issue. Proponents of stability debate the findings with advocates of transformation and change (McCrae et al., 2000;Lewis, 2001).In this report, we provide some initial findings from an investigation of the relations between childhood personality traits assessed by elementary-school teachers and similar traits assessed by self-reports at mid-life. Our analyses are based on data from the Hawaii Personality and Health Cohort, a relatively large and culturally diverse sample that was first assessed between 1959 and 1967 when the participants were children in Hawaii. The childhood assessments were designed and supervised by the late John M. Digman, and formed the basis for some of the pioneering work on the five-factor structure of personality (e.g., Digman, 1989 NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript assessments were undertaken over a four-year period (1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002) after an interval of 35 -43 years (Hampson et al., 2001). Consequently, these data offer an extraordinary opportunity to examine the question of personality stability from childhood to midlife with measures of the five-factor model of personality at each time point. We have be...

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2009

Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys

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Where Are They Now? Locating Former Elementary-School Students after Nearly 40 Years for a Longitudinal Study of Personality and Health

Cited by 38 publications

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Longitudinal Research at the Turn of the Century

Longitudinal Research at the Turn of the Century

A first large cohort study of personality trait stability over the 40 years between elementary school and midlife.

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