The Life History Calendar: A Research and clinical assessment method for collecting retrospective event-history data

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-114

  Caspi, Avshalom ^a   Moffitt, Terrie E ^a   Thornton, Arland ^b   Freedman, Deborah ^b   Amell, James W ^c   Harrington, Honalee ^c   Smeijers, Judith ^d   Silva, Phil A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Calendar; Event history; Life events; Retrospective

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747601654     PISSN: 10498931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1234-988X(199607)6:2<101::AID-MPR156>3.3.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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