MainLife – Life Story Development (quantitative Part)
GESIS, Cologne. ZA6711 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13955
Abstract: The study MainLife - Development of Life History (quantitative part) was conducted by the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. During the survey period from November 2002 to May 2020, individuals in different age cohorts were interviewed in a total of five waves (I-V) about their life stories, motives, and well-being. The first wave was designed to examine the development of the ability to construct and tell coherent life stories. Wave II added the new age cohorts. Wave III was used to examine longitudinal life story development, Wave IV to examine life story and motives, and Wave V to examine ... more Content: Life Story Development: MainLife Questionnaires
Biographical:
Change in personal life circumstances; change in personality; feeling of self-discontinuity; satisfaction with personal development; attempts to change personality and life;
Biographical knowledge: Age norms (negative values) - mean deviation in years; biographical salience (negativ ... more Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 11.2002 - 05.2020
Date(s) of Data Collection: 11.2002 - 08.2003, wave 1 | 12.2006 - 01.2008, wave 2 | 04.2011 - 01.2012, wave 3 | 06.2015 - 06.2016, wave 4 | 06.2019 - 05.2020, wave 5
Geographic coverage: Frankfurt am Main (DE-HE-FRA)
Universe: German-speaking population of birth cohorts 1993-1995, 1990-1991, 1986-1987, 1982-1983, 1961-1972, 1938-1946
Number of Units: 200
Sampling Procedure: • Non-probability: Availability;
Temporal Research Design: Longitudinal Analysis Unit: Individual Mode of Data Collection: • Face-to-face interview: Paper-and-pencil (PAPI);
Data Collector: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 396
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Habermas, Tilmann - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Publication year: 2022
DOI: 10.4232/1.13955
Study number: ZA6711
Publisher: GESIS
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, 2022-08-05, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13955
Version history: ... more Reference publications
Publications: Habermas, Tilmann:
Technical Report on the Mainlife Study (2002-2019) : Provided for the life narratives deposited at Qualiservice Bremen and for the quantitative MAINLIFE data deposited at GESIS.
Frankfurt: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 2022
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