Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access originally published online on September 8, 2005
Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2006 31(10):995-1001; doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsj070
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Longitudinal Research in Pediatric Psychology: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Loyola University Chicago
All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Grayson N. Holmbeck, Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, 6525 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois 60626. E-mail: gholmbe@luc.edu.
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This issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology (JPP) includes articles submitted for a special issue on "Longitudinal Research in Pediatric Psychology." In the Call for Papers, we sought empirically oriented manuscripts that employed longitudinal designs and theoretical, methodological, or statistical papers relevant to longitudinal research. Examples of potential topics were provided in the Call and included: (a) familial, peer, and/or other contextual predictors of subsequent change in health-compromising behaviors in typically developing children or change in health-related behaviors and processes in children with chronic illness, (b) the impact of chronic illness on normative development or the consequences of varying developmental trajectories for subsequent health-related behaviors and processes, (c) studies that isolate different health trajectories as well as predictors of such differential outcomes, (d) tests of prospective mediational or causal predictor models based on longitudinal data, and (e) prevention, health promotion, and intervention studies with multiple data collection points that
| Advantages of Longitudinal Research in the Study of Children with Chronic Physical Conditions |
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| Considerations in Designing Longitudinal Research with Pediatric Populations |
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| The Studies in This Special Issue of JPP |
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