WLS Researchers
Understanding health and well-being across the life course

Appendix G

Personality items, Cognition, Comparisons, Closeness, Values and Attitudes, and Volunteering

  • memo091.asc – “Effect of instrument on distributions of otherwise identical “”Five-Factor Model of Personality”” items.”
  • memo099.asc – “Examination of “”Five-Factor Model of Personality”” mail items for unusual response patterns.”
  • memo114.asc – “Scales for the personality items (5- factor model of personality
  • memo121.asc – Using data on IQ and high school rank from the WLS (with additional notes on allocation flags and recoded items from the 1957 Questionnaire)
  • memo124.asc – Graduate IQ data – updates and recommendations
  • memo124.pdf – Supporting figures for IQ updates and recommendations
  • cor449.doc – Coding of items unsed in construction of the five factor model of personality structure.
  • cor458.asc – Scoring for cognition items:primary sample 1992/93 follow-up.
  • cor571a.asc – 1993 – “References and variable creation for psychological, personality, health, work and family, and organization items. Tenacious Goal Pursuit (TGP) and Flexible Goal Adjustment (FGA) by Brandtstader and Renner. (Complete Preliminary English Version)(rev.9/00)”
  • cor572.asc – Scoring for cognition items: sibling sample 1994 follow-up.
  • cor652.asc – “Construction of “”new”” IQ variables”
  • cor816YearbookDraft.doc – High School Activities coded from 1957 Yearbook.
  • cor825.txt – Variable creation for the Cognition Word Recall Module – Immediate and Delayed, 2004 Graduate Instrument
  • cor841.doc – Variable Creation For Volunteering
  • cor859similaritiesCodingFiles.Zip – Cognition-Similarities Coding files for 2003-2005 surveys.
  • cor859CognitionSimilarities_GradPhone.doc – Cognition-Similarities Coding files for 2003-2005 surveys.
  • cor860readme.txt – Cognition-Fluency Coding files for 2003-2005 surveys.
  • cor860FluencyCodingToWLS.zip – Cognition-Fluency Coding files for 2003-2005 surveys.
  • cor860FluencyCodingSupervisorInstructions.doc – Cognition-Fluency Coding files for 2003-2005 surveys.
  • cor860FluencyCodingDecisions.doc – Cognition-Fluency Coding files for 2003-2005 surveys.
  • cor862.txt – Variable creation for the Cognition Digit Ordering Module – 2004 Graduate Instrument
  • cor871.txt – Cognition Similarities open-ended coding
  • cor900.txt – Variable Creation for the Cognition Word Recall module – Immediate and Delayed, 2004 Graduate Spouse Instrument
  • cor911CognitionSimilarities_GradSPOUSE.doc – On Variable Creation for the 2003-5 Cognition – Similarities module, Graduate Spouse Instrument
  • cor943.txt – Variable Creation for the 2005 Sibling Cognition- Delayed Recall Module
  • cor946.txt – Variable Creation for the 2005 Sibling Cognition- Digit Ordering Module
  • cor948a.txt – Variable creation for Nisbett Module
  • cor953.txt – Variable Creation for the 2005 Sibling Volunteering Module
  • cor954CognitionSimilarities_SIBLING.doc – Cognition-Similarities Coding files for 2005 sibling survey.
  • cor963.txt – Variable Creation for the 2005 Sibling Cognition Fluency Module
  • cor970_ScoringCogSimAnswers.doc – Cognition Similarities Answers
  • cor1022.txt – Cognition Letter/Category Fluency Module Analysis Data Error Originated in “gcogflu.do” from the 2004 Collection Wave, and WLS Staff’s Solution as Implemented in the Official Release of 2011 Data
  • cor1027.rtf – Linguistic Functioning using E-Prime (2011)
  • Task3_Pictures.zip – Linguistic Functioning using E-Prime (2011) pictures [zip archive]