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Secondary Analysis of a Longitudinal Survey of Educated Women: A Social Psychological Perspective
Author(s) -
Kulka Richard A.,
Colten Mary Ellen
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1982.tb00843.x
Subject(s) - attrition , attribution , perspective (graphical) , flexibility (engineering) , psychology , survey data collection , relevance (law) , set (abstract data type) , general social survey , social psychology , computer science , medicine , political science , mathematics , statistics , artificial intelligence , law , programming language , dentistry
This paper attempts to illustrate the flexibility inherent in many currently archived survey data sets by suggesting how one particular data set—the Ginzberg‐Yohalem Survey of Educated Women—originally collected for a different purpose, might be analyzed to address some major themes of interest to social psychologists today, including: (1) person‐situation interaction; (2) attitudes and behavior; (3) attribution theory; (4) helping behavior; and (5) social motivation. After noting a few methodological problems that limit the use of these data, including establishing an appropriate “cohort‐defining event” and measurement interval (“causal lag”) and the problem of panel attrition, the potential relevance of these data to each of these social psychological issues is illustrated by describing both specific analyses that might be conducted using variables from this survey and a number of others that cannot be done due to particular features of these data.