Follow-up of the Kelly longitudinal study. 1981.

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Connolly, James J. Follow-up of the Kelly longitudinal study.

Follow-up of the Kelly longitudinal study. 1981.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26623779

The purpose of this follow-up study was to examine the relationship between (intra/inter) personality characteristics and marriage compatibility over a period of forty-five years. Most studies of marriage have been conducted for periods of under 20 years. Connolly, however, followed up participants who had been interviewed periodically since 1935, when E.L. Kelly initially contacted them (see Kelly, A431). Participants for the original study were identified by Kelly in 1935-38, through engagement announcements in a local paper. Three hundred couples volunteered to submit to an extensive battery of physiological and psychological tests, as part of a projected seven-year longitudinal investigation of marital compatibility and other aspects of married life. Couples who did marry (249 couples) were contacted by mail each year on their anniversaries. This practice continued until 1941, when data collection was suspended due to World War II. In 1954, participants were recontacted and asked to complete a new battery of tests and return them by mail (see Kelly). Connolly conducted the 1979-1981 follow-up with 393 participants from the original sample of 600. He continued to examine the relationship between personality and marital compatibility. In addition, he studied the cross-situational and longitudinal consistency of personality, intelligence, and self-opinion. Connolly continued to follow both members of divorced couples, and instructed them to answer questions with regard to their current or most recent spouses. The Murray Research Center holds all the original raw data for this wave.

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Harvard University, Murray Research Center