The phrase
"measurement occasions" refers to specific times or events when measurements or assessments are taken.
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Such cycles may be quite difficult to document without study designs that involve closely
spaced measurement occasions (including daily diary approaches) or experimental (i.e., intervention) manipulation.
This indicates that older children reported higher levels of rumination and sleep problems, and lower levels of emotional well - being, and their parents reported higher levels of internalizing symptoms,
across measurement occasions.
Parameter estimates and t - values for multilevel models of treatment outcome predicted by measurement occasion
This study adds to the preliminary findings on mindfulness - based programs for children in combination with mindful parenting training for their parents, by extending the age range to include children from 8 until 23 years old, enlarging the sample size, investigating the effects on comorbid internalizing and externalizing problems, and by adding a 1 - year follow -
up measurement occasion.
Families were recruited through birth records of the Municipal Health Service of Amsterdam; families received tickets for the local zoo after completing the
first measurement occasion.
emotional insecurity, and their psychological difficulties across five
measurement occasions that
characteristics and the primary variables across the five
measurement occasions.
reports of child maladjustment dropped more modestly across the three measurement occasions
Similar to other constructs that have traditionally been considered as traits or dispositions, we expected that spirituality would vary within persons, i.e., across time and
measurement occasions (days in our case).
Both studies utilized multimethod, multi-informant assessment batteries within a longitudinal design with 3
measurement occasions.
The results showed significant individual differences in both final level of delinquent behaviors and in the rate of change across 3
measurement occasions.
Each measurement occasion A-D comprises two financial difficulty measurements and a subsequent ADHD symptom outcome measure
A repeated measures study design was used with five
measurement occasions: waitlist, 1 week pre-intervention, directly post intervention, 2 - month follow - up, and 1 - year follow - up.
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1996] at two
measurement occasions, with a 26 - months interval.
Amount of children with (sub) clinical levels of symptoms at
each measurement occasion on Youth Self - Report (YSR), Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) mother - report, or CBCL father - report before and directly after MYmind, at 2 - month follow - up, and at 1 - year follow - up
From here, we refer to
these measurement occasions as age 4 and 12 years respectively.
However, since only six families completed the waitlist, we did not include
this measurement occasion in the current study.
Measurement occasions were treated as fixed.
Finally, not all participants completed the questionnaires on
all measurement occasions.
Measurement occasions and analysis groupings (not to scale) for the predictor: change in financial difficulties, and outcome: ADHD symptoms from the hyperactivity subscale of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.
In the current study, children's emotional and behavioral problems, parenting stress, and parenting behavior are improved on
all measurement occasions, and with the current study design, we can not test how these changes influence each other.
When exploring whether additional therapy influenced effects over time, we found that families who received additional therapy reported more decrease in parental internalizing symptoms and in parental overreactivity at only one out of three
measurement occasions, while no stronger benefits for these families were found on the other outcomes at any measurement occasion.
The results showed substantial absolute and relative stability in both types of problem behavior, but also significant individual differences in both initial levels of problem behavior and in the rate of change across the 3
measurement occasions.