A New SAS Procedure for Latent Transition Analysis: Transitions in Dating and Sexual Risk Behavior

Autor/inn/en	Lanza, Stephanie T.; Collins, Linda M.
Titel	A New SAS Procedure for Latent Transition Analysis: Transitions in Dating and Sexual Risk Behavior
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 44 (2008) 2, S.446-456 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
Schlagwörter	Young Adults; Sexuality; Gender Differences; Statistical Analysis; Risk; Health Behavior; Evaluation Methods; Longitudinal Studies; Adolescents; Substance Abuse; Prediction; Dating (Social) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Sexualität; Geschlechterkonflikt; Statistische Analyse; Risiko; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Vorhersage
Abstract	The set of statistical methods available to developmentalists is continually being expanded, allowing for questions about change over time to be addressed in new, informative ways. Indeed, new developments in methods to model change over time create the possibility for new research questions to be posed. Latent transition analysis, a longitudinal extension of latent class analysis, is a method that can be used to model development in discrete latent variables, for example, stage processes, over 2 or more times. The current article illustrates this approach using a new SAS procedure, PROC LTA, to model change over time in adolescent and young adult dating and sexual risk behavior. Gender differences are examined, and substance use behaviors are included as predictors of initial status in dating and sexual risk behavior and transitions over time. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10