A Dynamic Approach to Control for Cohort Differences in Maturation Speed Using Accelerated Longitudinal Designs
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2023-01-24Estado
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. Accelerated longitudinal designs (ALD) allow studying developmental processes usually spanning multiple years in a much shorter time framework by including participants from different age cohorts, which are assumed to share the same population parameters. However, different cohorts may have been exposed to dissimilar contextual factors, resulting in different developmental trajectories. If such differences are not accounted for, the generating process will not be adequately characterized. In this paper, we propose a continuous-time latent change score model as an approach to capture cohort differences affecting the speed of maturation of psychological processes in ALDs. This approach fills an important gap in the literature because, until now, no method existed for this goal. Using a Monte-Carlo simulation study, we show that the proposed model detects cohort differences adequately, regardless of their size in the population. Our proposed model can help developmental researchers control for cohort effects in the context of ALDs.
A Dynamic Approach to Control for Cohort Differences in Maturation Speed Using Accelerated Longitudinal Designs
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.Accelerated longitudinal designs cohort differences continuous time models latent change score models speed of maturation state space models