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GoLD - The Gothenburg Longitudinal study of Development

Research project

Active research

Project period

1981 - ongoing

Project owner

Department of Psychology

Financier

Forte (several grants), Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RBJ), Socialvetenskapliga Forskningsrådet (SFR) and Swedish research council (VR)

Area

Health and medicine Society and economy

Topic

Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology) Psychology Other Social Sciences Gender Studies Work Sciences

Short description

The GoLD study was initiated almost 40 years ago, and has since followed the same individuals from early childhood (1-2 years) to the transition to middle age (38-39 years). When the participants were younger, they were visited at home, at their day care center or family day care, and later in school. From early childhood to age 15, the parents of the participants also participated in the study.

Over the years, the GoLD study has focused on different aspects of stability and change in psychological development, and the focus has varied depending on age of the participants. Initially, the study involved questions concerning parenthood and the effect of different types of childcare as well as cognitive development, development of social competence and personality development.

Publications

Articles and dissertations

Eriksson, P. L., & Frisén, A. (2023). Facing Challenging Experiences in Life–Narrative Identity Development Processes and Associations with Wellbeing During the Transition to Midlife. Identity, 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2023.2258152
Järdmo, C., Frisén, A., & Wängqvist, M. (2023). Experiences of Romantic Relationships Among Early Adults who do not Turn to Their Long-term Partner when in Need of Love and Support. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 64, 133-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12878
Järdmo, C., Eriksson, P. L., Malm, I., McLean, K. C. & Frisén, A. (2023). Creating something new from past experiences - The meaning of change in repeated narratives. Journal of Personality, 91(6), 1294-1313. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12807
Järdmo, C. (2022). Identity in Early Adulthood - Aspects of Romantic Relationships and Occupation. [Licentiate thesis]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg
Wängqvist, M., Carlsson, J., Syed, M., Frisén, A., Lamb, M. E., & Hwang, C. P. (2022). Within family patterns of relative parental involvement across two generations of Swedish parents. Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), 36(7), 1240–1248.
Eriksson, P. L., Wängqvist, M., Carlsson, J., & Frisén, A. (2020). Identity development in early adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 56(10), 1968-1983.
Eriksson, P. L., McLean, K. C., & Frisén, A. (2020). Ta Det Onda Med Det Goda (Accepting the Bad that Comes with the Good) - A Cultural Framework for Identity Narratives of Difficult Experiences in Sweden. Identity, 20(3), 157-169.
Hwang, P & Frisén, A. (2020). Barns psykologiska utveckling – från nyfödd till skola. In N, Pramling., A-L, Lindgren., & R Säljö (Eds.), Förskolan och barns utveckling: Grundbok för förskollärare. Andra reviderade upplagan.(pp. 77-92). Malmö: Gleerups
Syed, M., Eriksson, P. L., Frisén, A., Hwang, C. P., & Lamb, M. E. (2020). Personality development from age 2 to 33: Stability and change in ego resiliency and ego control and associations with adult adaptation. Developmental Psychology, 56(4), 815-832.
Larsson, H., Eriksson, P. L., & Frisén, A. (2020). “It’s a new chapter now”: Establishing commitments in the romantic domain during early adulthood. Identity, 20(1), 37-57.
Eriksson, P. L. (2020). Developing into early adulthood: The role of identity and personality [Doctoral dissertation]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/66774
Eriksson, P. L. (2019). Identity and personality development with a focus on early adulthood [Licentiate thesis]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg.
Kling, J. (2019). Being at home in one’s body, Body image in light of identity development [Doctoral dissertation]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/60176
Gyberg, F. (2019). Identity: Understanding aspects of process, content, and structure in context [Doctoral dissertation]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/61799
Gyberg, F., Frisén, A., & Syed, M. (2019). “Being stuck between two worlds” – Identity configurations of occupational and family identities. Identity, 19(4), 330-346.
Hwang, P., & Nilsson, B. (2019) Utvecklingspsykologi (fjärde reviderade upplagan). Natur & Kultur: Stockholm.
Kling, J., Wängqvist, M., & Frisén, A. (2018). “This body is me”: Discovering the ways in which the body is salient in people's identities. Body Image, 24, 102-110.
Hwang, C.P., & Frisén, A. Barns psykologiska utveckling från nyfödd till skola. Pramling, N., Lindgren, A-L.& Säljö, R. (2017). Förskolan och barns utveckling: Grundbok för förskollärare. Malmö: Gleerups.
Gyberg, F., & Frisén, A. (2017). Identity status, gender, and social comparison among young adults. Identity: An international journal of theory and research, 17(4), 239-252.
Wängqvist. M., Carlsson, J., van der Lee, M. & Frisén, A. (2016). Identity development and romantic relationships in the late twenties. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 16(1), 24-44.
Carlsson, J., Wängqvist, M., & Frisén, A. (2016). Life on hold: Staying in identity diffusion in the late twenties. Journal of Adolescence, 47, 220-229.
Gyberg, F. (2016). Identity development in context, An Integrated Approach in Understanding Aspects of Ethnicity and Gender [Licentiate thesis]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg.
Carlsson, J. (2015). Evolving identities: Contents and processes of identity development among people in their late twenties. [Doctoral dissertation]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/38723
Wängqvist, M., Lamb, M. E., Frisén, A., & Hwang, C. P. (2015). Child and adolescent
Carlsson, J. (2013). Identity in the late twenties [Licentiate thesis]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg.
Wängqvist, M. (2013). That's how people grow up: Identity Formation in Emerging Adulthood [Doctoral dissertation]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/32508
Wängqvist, M. (2010). To be whatever you want to be, you still need to know what it is: Identity Development in Emerging Adulthood [Licentiate thesis]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg.
Podromidis, M. (1995). Aggression and Noncompliance among Swedish Children in Centre-based Care, Family Day Care, and Home Care [Doctoral dissertation]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg.
Broberg, A. (1989). Child care and early development; A longitudinal study of child care, and its effects on child development [Doctoral dissertation]. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/16761

Research group

Our research

Developmental Psychology

The Gothenburg group for Research in Developmental psychology (GRID)

Last modified

27 February 2024