Project Details
Projekt
Prospective longitudinal cohort study from middle childhood to late adolescence/emerging adulthood: The PIER study as a central survey project
Applicant
Professorin Dr. Petra Warschburger
Subject Area
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
Term
since 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 426314138
Self-regulation (SR) is a central psychological resource that enables individuals to react adequately to a variety of situational demands and successfully pursue their own goals. Accordingly, SR is linked to a wide range of positive developmental outcomes. As a complex and dynamic construct, the potential of SR continues to evolve up to the stage of emerging adulthood (EA), at which point it begins to consolidate. To date, research mainly focuses on childhood, and little is known about the development of SR and its associations with various developmental outcomes of late adolescence/EA. This development stage is of particular importance, as developmental difficulties accumulate, many problems occur for the first time, and the course to adulthood is paved. The common goal of FOR 5034 for the second funding period (FP2) stays the prospective analysis of the development of basal and complex SR facets while accounting for peer-related contextual factors and their contribution to explaining specific developmental outcomes. In FP2, the main focus lies on EA. The central survey project is responsible for the generation, maintenance, and documentation of the jointly-used longitudinal data set, including the necessary organization and administration. The multimodal and multimethodological survey approach of the previous individual tests will be continued. Build upon three surveys of the PIER study (aged 6-10 (T1), 7-11 (T2), 9-13 years (T3)) with N = 1,657 children at T1, a further survey (T4, aged 16-21 years) was successfully conducted during the first funding period. Basal (inhibition, executive working memory/updating, cognitive flexibility, heart rate variability as well as emotional reactivity) and complex SR facets (emotion regulation, cognitive regulation, behavioral regulation such as delayed gratification, planning behavior, and impulsiveness) will be assessed. The survey will be carried out via self-reports, physiological tests, and computer-based assessments. Regarding the effects of SR, a broad range of particularly relevant behavioral areas and developmental requirements, such as internalizing or externalizing problems or eating disorders, will be considered. Furthermore, they will be extended by additional age-relevant aspects such as relationships. The prospective data set will be enriched by two experience sampling surveys of SR data in everyday contexts. The collaboration of all subprojects will generate a valuable database that enables complex statistical longitudinal analyses.
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