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Harris, K. M. (2020, June 26). National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Public Use Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PVT) Score Data, Wave III.
Summary
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States. The Add Health cohort has been followed into young adulthood with four in-home interviews, the most recent in 2008, when the sample was aged 24-32*. Add Health combines longitudinal survey data on respondents' social, economic, psychological and physical well-being with contextual data on the family, neighborhood, community, school, friendships, peer groups, and romantic relationships, providing unique opportunities to study how social environments and behaviors in adolescence are linked to health and achievement outcomes in young adulthood. The fourth wave of interviews expanded the collection of biological data in Add Health to understand the social, behavioral, and biological linkages in health trajectories as the Add Health cohort ages through adulthood. The fifth wave of data collection is planned to begin in 2016.
Initiated in 1994 and supported by three program project grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) with co-funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations, Add Health is the largest, most comprehensive longitudinal survey of adolescents ever undertaken. Beginning with an in-school questionnaire administered to a nationally representative sample of students in grades 7-12, the study followed up with a series of in-home interviews conducted in 1995, 1996, 2001-02, and 2008. Other sources of data include questionnaires for parents, siblings, fellow students, and school administrators and interviews with romantic partners. Preexisting databases provide information about neighborhoods and communities.
Add Health was developed in response to a mandate from the U.S. Congress to fund a study of adolescent health, and Waves I and II focus on the forces that may influence adolescents' health and risk behaviors, including personal traits, families, friendships, romantic relationships, peer groups, schools, neighborhoods, and communities. As participants have aged into adulthood, however, the scientific goals of the study have expanded and evolved. Wave III, conducted when respondents were between 18 and 26** years old, focuses on how adolescent experiences and behaviors are related to decisions, behavior, and health outcomes in the transition to adulthood. At Wave IV, respondents were ages 24-32* and assuming adult roles and responsibilities. Follow up at Wave IV has enabled researchers to study developmental and health trajectories across the life course of adolescence into adulthood using an integrative approach that combines the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences in its research objectives, design, data collection, and analysis.
* 52 respondents were 33-34 years old at the time of the Wave IV interview. ** 24 respondents were 27-28 years old at the time of the Wave III interview.
The Wave III public-use data are helpful in analyzing the transition between adolescence and young adulthood. Included here is the Picture Vocabulary Test (PVT).
Date Collected: In-home interviews and biomarker collection: April-May 2001 (pretest), July 2001-April 2002 (main study)Add Health Picture Vocabulary Test: July 2001-April 2002
In-home interviews and biomarker collection Add Health Picture Vocabulary Test
Sampling Procedures
The in-home Wave III sample consists of Wave I respondents who could be located and re-interviewed six years later. Wave III also collected high school transcript release forms as well as samples of urine for sexually transmitted infections. A total of 4,882 of the original Wave I respondents were re-interviewed for Wave III.
Principal Investigators
Dr. Kathleen Mullan Harris, Director, Add Health; James E. Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology; Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow, UNC-Chapel Hill
Related Publications
To access a publications database on the Add Health website, visit here, which includes more than 5,000 publications, presentations, unpublished manuscripts, and dissertations by Add Health researchers. To obtain a copy of any item, please contact the author.
