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Pakpahan, Eduwin; Hoffmann, Rasmus; Kröger, Hannes – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2017
We present three statistical methods for causal analysis in life course research that are able to take into account the order of events and their possible causal relationship: a cross-lagged model, a latent growth model (LGM), and a synthesis of the two, an autoregressive latent trajectories model (ALT). We apply them to a highly relevant…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Socioeconomic Status, Structural Equation Models, Health
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Brehmer-Rinderer, B.; Zigrovic, L.; Weber, G. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2014
Background: Based on the idea of the Common Sense Model of Illness Representations by Leventhal as well as Lohaus's concepts of health and illness, a health behaviour model was designed to explain health behaviours applied by persons with intellectual disabilities (ID). The key proposal of this model is that the way someone understands the…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Models, Health Behavior, Comprehension