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Flora, David B. – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Piecewise latent trajectory models for longitudinal data are useful in a wide variety of situations, such as when a simple model is needed to describe nonlinear change, or when the purpose of the analysis is to evaluate hypotheses about change occurring during a particular period of time within a model for a longer overall time frame, such as…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Evaluation Methods, Equations (Mathematics), Longitudinal Studies
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Brody, Gene H.; McBride Murry, Velma; McNair, Lily; Chen, Yi-Fu; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gerrard, Meg; Ashby Wills, Thomas – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2005
A randomized prevention trial was conducted contrasting families who took part in the Strong African American Families Program (SAAF), a preventive intervention for rural African American mothers and their 11-year-olds, with control families. SAAF is based on a conceptual model positing that changes in intervention-targeted parenting behaviors…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Structural Equation Models, Sexuality, Drinking