Category: Longitudinal studies
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The Up Series – Britain’s Best Loved Longitudinal Study
From 7 Up to 63 Up
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Depression leads to more social media usage, not the other way around!
Recent longitudinal research from Brock University in Canada suggests that depression leads to people spending more time on social media, rather than those who spend more time of social media being more likely to develop depression. This study contradicts many of the ‘moral panic’ type headlines which suggests a link between heavy social media use…
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Longitudinal Studies
Longitudinal Studies are studies in which data is collected at specific intervals over a long period of time in order to measure changes over time. This post provides one example of a longitudinal study and explores some the strengths and limitations of this research method. With a longitudinal study you might start with an original…
