Loeber R, Farrington D P
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
J Consult Clin Psychol. 1994 Oct;62(5):887-900. doi: 10.1037//0022-006x.62.5.887.
This article identifies questions in child psychopathology and delinquency that can best be answered by using longitudinal data and discusses the advantages and problems of longitudinal studies. The article also reviews methodological issues arising in longitudinal research on child psychopathology and proposes solutions to problems. Retrospective and prospective designs are contrasted with the accelerated longitudinal design. It is concluded that more longitudinal studies of child psychopathology including experimental treatment interventions are needed, with repeated data collection from a variety of sources and several years of data before and after the interventions. Such studies, in addition to the traditional longitudinal studies, are likely to improve the understanding of child psychopathology and of factors that influence and reduce serious outcomes for children and adolescents.
本文确定了儿童精神病理学和犯罪学中最适合通过纵向数据来解答的问题，并讨论了纵向研究的优势和问题。本文还回顾了儿童精神病理学纵向研究中出现的方法学问题，并提出了解决问题的方案。回顾性设计和前瞻性设计与加速纵向设计形成对比。得出的结论是，需要开展更多关于儿童精神病理学的纵向研究，包括实验性治疗干预，从多种来源重复收集数据，并在干预前后收集数年的数据。除了传统的纵向研究之外，这类研究可能会增进对儿童精神病理学以及影响和减少儿童及青少年严重后果的因素的理解。
