What Is a Longitudinal Study?
Longitudinal study is also called follow-up study, which refers to the repeated study of the same or the same batch of participants over a relatively long period of time.
- Chinese name
- Longitudinal study
- Foreign name
- longitudinal study
- Applicable subject
- psychology
- Scope of application
- School psychology
- Longitudinal study is also called follow-up study, which refers to the repeated study of the same or the same batch of participants over a relatively long period of time.
Advantages of longitudinal research
- 1. Often you can see a more complete development process and some key turning points in the development process;
- 2. Particularly suitable for research on stability issues and the effects of early effects, but also for case studies
Disadvantages of longitudinal research
- 1. Compare time, money and manpower;
- 2. The timeliness is poor, sometimes it takes a long time to get the research results, and sometimes the meaning of the research topic gradually weakens with time, or the research methods gradually become backward;
- 3 Due to the long time taken for longitudinal research, the loss of subjects may occur, which will affect the representativeness of the subjects and the generality of the research results;
- 4 Because longitudinal studies require repeated studies of the same group of participants, exercise or fatigue effects may sometimes occur.