Intensive Longitudinal Methods: An Introduction to Diary and Experience Sampling Research

by Niall Bolger, Jean-Philippe Laurenceau

This book offers a complete, practical guide to doing an intensive longitudinal study with individuals, dyads, or groups. It provides the tools for studying social, psychological, and physiological processes in everyday contexts, using methods such as diary and experience sampling. A range of engaging, worked-through research examples with datasets are featured. Coverage includes how select the best intensive longitudinal design for a particular research question, apply multilevel models to within-subject designs, model within-subject change processes for continuous and categorical outcomes, assess the reliability of within-subject changes, assure sufficient statistical power, and more. Several end-of-chapter write-ups illustrate effective ways to present study findings for publication. Datasets and output in SPSS, SAS, Mplus, HLM, MLwiN, and R for the examples are available on the companion website ( www.intensivelongitudinal.com ).

256 pages, Hardcover

First published September 18, 2012

Reviews

[Victoria Oldemburgo De Mello · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was my first introduction to multi-level modeling. I considered it too advanced for my stats knowledge. It took me almost a year to read it as I took a breaks from the book to catch up with more basic stats knowledge.

If you’re new to analyzing intensive longitudinal data (like I still am), I would not recommend it.