Junhui Yang

This book investigates the most common approach to assessing behavior in youth development. It explores use of multiple informants who each observe youth in the social contexts that typify their everyday lives, including parents, teachers, peers, and youth themselves. The volume characterizes the most common outcome from taking this assessment approach — the discrepant results or estimates about behavior that informants’ reports often produce. Grounded in the Operations Triad Model — the foundational framework for contemporary scholarship about discrepant results — this book focuses on strategies that discrepant results compel scholars to implement, namely strategies for integrating these results. The book highlights that the integrative strategies scholars have historically used prevent them from capitalizing on the valid data that discrepant results often contain. This authoritative, thoroughly resourced, and methodologically rigorous book provides readers with integrative strategies that align with scholarship in youth development. In doing so, the book provides readers with a paradigm for testing competing data integration strategies, using a sophisticated suite of Monte Carlo Simulation and measurement validation tools that are applicable to a host of assessment scenarios in scholarship on youth development. Key areas of coverage include: Use of multiple informants to assess behavior in youth development. The frequent observation of discrepant results when assessing behavior in youth development. Theoretical models for explaining discrepant results in behavior assessments and how they inform strategies for integrating assessment data. Key distinctions in the assumptions that underlie the use of competing integrative strategies. Application of Monte Carlo Simulation strategies for testing competing integrative strategies. Implementation of measurement validation strategies that put competing integrative strategies to the test, within data conditions that typify research in youth development. Youth Development in Context is an essential resource for researchers, professors, graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental psychology, social work, public health, pediatrics, family studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, school and educational psychology, and all interrelated disciplines. This book investigates the most common approach to assessing behavior in youth development. It explores use of multiple informants who each observe youth in the social contexts that typify their everyday lives, including parents, teachers, peers, and youth themselves. The volume characterizes the most common outcome from taking this assessment approach — the discrepant results or estimates about behavior that informants’ reports often produce. Grounded in the Operations Triad Model — the foundational framework for contemporary scholarship about discrepant results — this book focuses on strategies that discrepant results compel scholars to implement, namely strategies for integrating these results. The book highlights that the integrative strategies scholars have historically used prevent them from capitalizing on the valid data that discrepant results often contain. This authoritative, thoroughly resourced, and methodologically rigorous book provides readers with integrative strategies that align with scholarship in youth development. In doing so, the book provides readers with a paradigm for testing competing data integration strategies, using a sophisticated suite of Monte Carlo Simulation and measurement validation tools that are applicable to a host of assessment scenarios in scholarship on youth development. Key areas of coverage include: Use of multiple informants to assess behavior in youth development. The frequent observation of discrepant results when assessing behavior in youth development. Theoretical models for explaining discrepant results in behavior assessments and how they inform strategies for integrating assessment data. Key distinctions in the assumptions that underlie the use of competing integrative strategies. Application of Monte Carlo Simulation strategies for testing competing integrative strategies. Implementation of measurement validation strategies that put competing integrative strategies to the test, within data conditions that typify research in youth development. Youth Development in Context is an essential resource for researchers, professors, graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental psychology, social work, public health, pediatrics, family studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, school and educational psychology, and all interrelated disciplines.

Dieses Buch untersucht den in der Entwicklungsforschung am häufigsten verwendeter Ansatz zur Einschätzung von Verhalten im Jugendalter: die Nutzung mehrerer Informanten. Das Verhalten von Jugendlichen wird im Alltag aus unterschiedlichen sozialen Kontexten heraus beobachtet – etwa durch Eltern, Lehrkräfte, Gleichaltrige und durch die Jugendlichen selbst. Daraus ergeben sich häufig voneinander abweichende Einschätzungen desselben Verhaltens. Der Band beschreibt dieses typische Ergebnis multipler Einschätzungen – die Diskrepanz zwischen den Berichten verschiedener Informanten – und ordnet es theoretisch fundiert ein. Ausgangspunkt ist das Operations Triad Modell, ein zentrales Rahmenkonzept der gegenwärtigen Forschung zur Erklärung solcher Diskrepanzen. Darauf aufbauend richtet sich der Fokus auf Strategien, mit denen Forschende widersprüchliche Befunde systematisch integrieren können. Zentrale Themenbereiche des Buches sind: die Erfassung von Verhalten und Entwicklung im Jugendalter mithilfe mehrerer Informanten das häufige Auftreten diskrepanter Einschätzungen zwischen Eltern, Lehrkräften, Peers und Jugendlichen theoretische Modelle zur Erklärung dieser Diskrepanzen und ihre Bedeutung für die Datenauswertung grundlegende Annahmen und Unterschiede konkurrierender Integrationsstrategien der Einsatz von Monte Carlo Simulationen zur Prüfung unterschiedlicher Integrationsansätze Validierungsverfahren zur Bewertung von Messinstrumenten unter realistischen Forschungsbedingungen Das Werk zeigt, dass viele bislang verwendete Integrationsstrategien das valide Informationspotenzial diskrepanter Befunde nur unzureichend ausschöpfen. Demgegenüber wird ein methodisch anspruchsvolles Paradigma entwickelt, mit dem konkurrierende Integrationsansätze systematisch geprüft werden können. Der Band richtet sich an Forschende, Lehrende und fortgeschrittene Studierende sowie an Fachpersonen aus Entwicklungspsychologie, Sozialarbeit, Public Health, Pädiatrie, Familien und Jugendforschung, Kinder und Jugendpsychiatrie sowie Schul und Bildungspsychologie.