◎contents 1. Studying indivedaul development : problems and methods / Lars R.Bergman 2. Modeling individual and average human growth data from childhood to adulthood / Roland C.Hauspie 3. Intraindividual variability in older adults' depression scores : some implications for developmental theory and longitudinal research / John R. Nesselroade 4. Now you see it, now you don't-some considerations on multiple regression / George W. Brown 5. Differential development of health in a life-span perspective / Leiv S.Bakketeig 6. Assessing change in a cohort-longitudinal study with hierarchical data / Dan Olweus 7. Statisitical and conceptual models of 'turning points' in developmental processes / Andrew Pickles 8. Qualitative analysis of individual differences in intra-individual change : example from cognitive development / Eberhard Schroder 9. Application of correspondence analysis to a longitudinal study of cognitive development / Jacques Lautrey 10. Event-history models in social mobility research / Hans-Peter Blossfeld 11. Behavioral genetic concepts in longitudinal analysis / Nancy L.Pedersen 12. Genetic and environmental factors in a develoopmental perspective / Peter C.M.Molenaar 13. Structural equation models for studying intellectual development / George Rudinger 14. Longitudinal studies for discrete data based on latent structure models / Erling B.Andersen 15. Stability and change in patterns of extrinsic adjustment problems / Lars R.Bergman index