Search results for "longitudinal"

How Much Should we Care about Consecutive Spells of Poverty? Proposal of a New Index

2009

Is cross-sectional poverty a reflection of real economic and social disadvantage? Does total number of years spent in poverty provide sufficient information about poverty severity? Recent studies show that in some countries there are good reasons to believe that it is not (see, among others, Mendola et al., 2009). Traditional measures of poverty persistence, such as ‘poverty rate’ (i.e. the number of years spent in poverty upon total number of observations) or the ‘persistent-risk-ofpoverty rate’, do not devote enough attention to the sequence of poverty spells. In particular they are not good enough in underlining different effects associated to occasional single spells of poverty and cons…

Resolving reading disability : Childhood predictors and adult-age outcomes

2019

We examined frequency of adult‐age reading disability (RD) and its childhood predictors among 48 adults (20 to 39 years) with documented childhood RD, and contrasted their cognitive skills, education, and employment with 37 matched controls. Among individuals with childhood RD, more than half had improved in their reading fluency to the level where the set criterion for adult‐age RD was not met anymore. More fluent rapid naming, less severe childhood RD, and multiple support providers in childhood together predicted improvement of reading fluency. More fluent naming differentiated the childhood RD participants whose reading fluency had improved by adult‐age from those participants whose RD …

Examining pre-service teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge as evolving knowledge domains : A longitudinal approach

2019

The aim of this study is to outline the development and changes in pre‐service teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) assessments during the first 3 years in teacher education. Specifically, research was conducted at three measurement points over a 3‐year teacher education period. The target group consisted of pre‐service teachers (N = 148) from three Finnish universities. Results indicate a growth in confidence related to all TPACK areas during the research period. The strongest gains were in pedagogical content knowledge. In addition, the gains were larger in other areas related to pedagogical knowledge than areas related to technology or content knowledge. In areas…

Perceived motor competence in early childhood predicts perceived and actual motor competence in middle childhood

2023

The study aims were to (1) identify perceived motor competence (PMC) and actual motor competence (AMC) profiles in children at two time points (early and middle childhood) 3 years apart, (2) explore transitions between the profiles from T1 to T2, and (3) investigate how PMC-AMC profiles at T1 differ in their mean values for AMC and PMC variables at T2. PMC was assessed by the pictorial scale of Perceived Movement Skill Competence for young children (PMSC). At T1, AMC was measured with Test of Gross Motor Development–third version (TGMD-3), and at T2, a shortened TGMD-3 was used. To identify the PMC-AMC profiles using latent profile analysis, the Mplus statistical package (version 8.7) was u…

Valor pronóstico de los parámetros de deformación miocárdica en una cohorte de pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca crónica estable

2023

La insuficiencia cardiaca (IC) es una patología de gran impacto a nivel mundial por sus elevadas cifras de morbilidad-mortalidad. A pesar de que la ecocardiografía es la prueba de elección para su diagnóstico y estratificación de riesgo, presenta importantes limitaciones y es incapaz de predecir el riesgo en pacientes con FEVI preservada. El estudio de la deformación miocárdica mediante rastreo de patrones, permite estimar el porcentaje de elongación o acortamiento de cada segmento miocárdico durante el ciclo cardíaco. Ha demostrado ser un parámetro capaz de identificar la disfunción miocárdica subclínica, asociándose con el riesgo de mortalidad y episodios adversos en subgrupos seleccionad…

Development of literacy in kindergarten and primary school

2006

Profiles of reading and fluency and spelling skills : stability and change across the early school years

2023

In this longitudinal study, we examined what kind of profiles of reading fluency and spelling skills could be identified among pupils (N = 467) and how stable these profiles were during the first three years of school. We also investigated how monolingual (Swedish) and simultaneously bilingual (Finnish-Swedish) pupils and gender were distributed within the profiles. Three profiles of reading fluency and spelling skills were found among the pupils through latent profile analysis: low, average, and high performing. Latent transition analysis confirmed stable and identical profiles throughout the first school years. The distributions of monolingual and bilingual pupils and gender were equal in…

An ultra-short measure of positive and negative affect: The Reduced Affective Well-Being Scale (RAWS).

2020

In applied organizational research, where economy of scale is often a crucial factor in successful assessment, ultra-short measures are often needed. This study investigates the psychometric properties of the Reduced Affective Well-Being Scale (RAWS), an ultra-short measure of positive and negative affect in the workplace. This 6-item ultra-short version was compared with the original 12-item scale proposed by Segura and González-Romá (2003) in terms of internal consistency and criterion validity, using a sample of 1117 bank employees. In addition, longitudinal measurement invariance and within-subject reliability of the RAWS over time were assessed in a longitudinal sample of 458 employees…

La actividad física, el uso de medios tecnológicos, el rendimiento académico y el peso en los adolescentes españoles: desde el enfoque transversal al…

2016

Esta tesis doctoral está compuesta de cuatro estudios, uno transversal y tres longitudinales. Una muestra representativa de 3.095 adolescentes españoles, de 12 a 18 años, fue encuestada en el estudio transversal. Este estudio tuvo como objetivo analizar el carácter predictivo de ciertas variables relacionadas con la salud y otras variables sociodemográficas sobre la actividad física moderada-vigorosa y el uso de medios tecnológicos de pantalla en adolescentes. Una muestra de 755 adolescentes (407 chicas y 348 chicos), con edades comprendidas entre 14 y 19 años, participó en tres estudios prospectivos de cohorte. Estos estudios longitudinales tenían como objetivo examinar los cambios en el t…

Cardiorespiratory Fitness and the Risk of Serious Ventricular Arrhythmias: A Prospective Cohort Study.

2019

Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease outcomes. However, the relationship of CRF with risk of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) is unknown. We aimed to assess the prospective association of CRF with the risk of serious VAs. Cardiorespiratory fitness, as measured by maximal oxygen uptake, was assessed using a respiratory gas exchange analyzer in 2299 middle-aged men in the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease prospective cohort. We corrected for within-person variability in CRF levels using data from repeated measurements 11 years apart. During median follow-up of 25.3 years (interquartile range, 18.7-27.2 years), 73 serious VAs were recorded. The age-…