Overview
| Repository: |
Manuscripts and Archives
Sterling Memorial Library 128 Wall Street P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520 Email: mssa.faq@yale.edu Phone: (203) 432-1735 Fax: (203) 432-7441 |
| Call Number: | RU 282 |
| Creator: | Yale University. Child Study Center. |
| Title: | Child Study Center, School of Medicine, Yale University, records concerning the longitudinal study |
| Dates: | 1942-1990s |
| Physical Description: | 53.0 linear feet |
| Language(s): | The materials are in English. |
| Summary: | The records consist of notes, reports, photographs, and interviews documenting the longitudinal study conducted at the Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine. |
| Note: | Forms part of Yale Record Group 27-E (YRG 27-E), Records of departments, offices, programs, and projects of the Yale School of Medicine. |
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| Catalog Record: | A record for this collection, including location information, may be available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog. |
Administrative Information
Information about Access
The records are restricted until 2050. Researchers wishing to use the records before this date must secure written authorization from the Arnold Gesell Professor Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Yale Child Study Center.
Cite As
Child Study Center, School of Medicine, Yale University, Records Concerning the Longitudinal Study (RU 282). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
Processing Notes
Yale University records are arranged and described at the accession level by the creating office. The University Archives creates collection level descriptive records, but typically does no further arrangement and description at the accession level.
Information about Creators
The Yale longitudinal study was planned as an ambitious exploratory study of personality (ego) development in the first years of life. The research team was composed of pediatricians, child psychologists, nursery-school teachers, psychiatric social workers and psychoanalysts, specialists in early childhood development. The initial investigators including Ernst Kris, Sally Provence, then-director Milton Senn, Charlotte del Solar and Katherine Wolf, began to recruit families and pilot the data collecting apparatus in early 1950.
Potential subjects were approached after their first obstretrical contact at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. Mothers were recruited if they were white, married, between 18-35 years, expecting their first child, presenting no severe physical or mental health complaints, expecting to reside in the vicinity of New Haven for several years, and if they expressed interest in participation.
Twenty-two families were initially recruited. Eventually ten families were followed completely, and there are also records for another six discontinued subjects. The collection of data for the study proper began in 1950. In its original conception the children were to be followed from birth through their first five years of life, but as the study progressed some subjects continued to be followed well into their teenage years.
Description of the Papers
The records consist of notes, reports, photographs, and interviews documenting the longitudinal study conducted at the Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine.
Arrangement
The records are arranged in five series: I. Family Data, 1950-1990s. II. Administrative Files, 1950-1982, no date III. Photographs, no date IV. Katherine Wolf Records, 1942-1963, no date. V. Data on Families (duplicates), 1950-1964.