Kelly Longitudinal Study, 1935-1955

This study was designed as a seven-year longitudinal investigation of marital compatibility and other aspects of married life, such as fertility. Follow-up data collection was conducted almost 20 years after the initial contact (1954-1955), providing data spanning the period from young adulthood to middle age relevant to issues regarding the consistency of adult personality. Between 1935 and 1938, 300 engaged couples volunteered to respond to an extensive battery of physiological and psychological tests and measures. Couples agreed to notify the investigator of their marriage, or of the broken engagement. In 1954-1955, 512 of the original 600 spouses participated in the second wave of data collection. Participants completed mailed questionnaires containing both precoded and open-ended responses. The data included scores on standardized psychological measures (Otis Self-Administering Test of Mental Ability, the Allport-Vernon Scale of Values, the Bernreuter Personality Inventory, the Bell Adjustment Inventory, Strong's Vocational Interest Inventory, Remmer's Generalized Attitude Scales, a 36-trait graphic Personality Rating Scale and, in the 1954-1955 follow-up, a version of Osgood's Semantic Differential). In addition, the questionnaires used at the time of the original data collection (1935-1938) included items concerning education; occupation; income; birth order; childhood family life; physical and mental health; child-rearing practices; respondent's sex education and experience; and solicited participants' opinions on the importance of various factors for a successful marriage. Information was also collected concerning the respondent's general physical health and specific health problems. The Murray Research Archive has numeric data from all questionnaires and standardized psychological measures administered at the time of the initial data collection (1935-1938) and at the time of the long-term follow-up (1954-1955). The Murray Archive also holds original record paper data, and responses to the open-ended questions included in the questionnaires administered at Time 1 and Time 2. Paper data deposited by James Connolly have been digitized for use. Th ere is a follow-up study conducted in 1979-1981 (see James Connolly, Log# 00522).本研究旨在开展一项为期七年的婚姻适配性及婚姻生活其他维度（如生育状况）的纵向追踪调查。首次接触（1935-1938年）后近20年，研究团队于1954-1955年开展了追踪数据收集，所获数据覆盖了从青年成年期到中年期的时段，可用于探讨成年人格的稳定性相关议题。1935年至1938年间，300对已订婚情侣自愿参与了一系列全面的生理与心理测试及评估项目。参与双方同意告知研究者其婚姻状况或婚约解除情况。1954-1955年，初始招募的600名配偶中有512名参与了第二波数据收集工作。参与者完成了邮寄问卷，问卷包含预编码题项与开放式回答内容。本次数据涵盖多项标准化心理测验的得分：奥蒂斯独立管理心理能力测验（Otis Self-Administering Test of Mental Ability）、奥尔波特-弗农价值观量表（Allport-Vernon Scale of Values）、伯恩雷特人格量表（Bernreuter Personality Inventory）、贝尔适应量表（Bell Adjustment Inventory）、斯特朗职业兴趣量表（Strong's Vocational Interest Inventory）、雷默广义态度量表（Remmer's Generalized Attitude Scales）、36特质图示人格评定量表（36-trait graphic Personality Rating Scale）；在1954-1955年的追踪调查中，还纳入了奥斯古德语义分化量表（Osgood's Semantic Differential）的一个版本。此外，初始数据收集阶段（1935-1938年）使用的问卷包含以下题项：教育背景、职业、收入、出生排行、童年家庭生活、身心健康状况、育儿方式、受访者的性教育与经历，并征集了参与者对影响婚姻成功的各类因素重要性的看法。研究同时收集了受访者的总体身体健康状况及具体健康问题相关信息。默里研究档案馆（Murray Research Archive）留存了初始数据收集（1935-1938年）与长期追踪调查（1954-1955年）阶段所有问卷及标准化心理测验的数值型数据。该档案馆还保存了原始纸质记录数据，以及两次调查中问卷所包含的开放式问题的应答内容。詹姆斯·康诺利提交的纸质数据已完成数字化以供使用。另有一项1979-1981年开展的追踪研究（详见詹姆斯·康诺利，日志编号00522）。