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Jan-Eric Gustafsson

Jan-Eric Gustafsson

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Psychology

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48
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10626
World Ranking
5892
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53

Overview

Jan-Eric Gustafsson is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences, with particular emphasis on education and psychology. Their scholarly output encompasses 34 publications in social sciences and 16 specifically in psychology.

The primary subfields of study for Gustafsson include education, developmental and educational psychology, statistics and probability, clinical psychology, and information systems and management.

The main research topics Gustafsson has focused on are:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Educational Assessment and Improvement
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills

Among their recent papers are:

  • Shared Book Reading in Preschool Supports Bilingual Children's Second-Language Learning: A Cluster-Randomized Trial, 2020, published in Child Development
  • Relations between students' well-being and academic achievement: evidence from Swedish compulsory school, 2023, published in European Journal of Psychology of Education
  • Perceived Academic Demands, Peer and Teacher Relationships, Stress, Anxiety and Mental Health: Changes from Grade 6 to 9 as a Function of Gender and Cognitive Ability, 2020, published in Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
  • App-based morphological training produces lasting effects on word knowledge in primary school children: A randomized controlled trial, 2021, published in Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Do teacher talk features mediate the effects of shared reading on preschool children's second-language development?, 2022, published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Gustafsson has contributed multiple publications to several high-profile journals, including:

  • European Journal of Psychology of Education (2 publications)
  • Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research (2 publications)
  • Journal of Educational Psychology (2 publications)
  • Studies In Educational Evaluation (2 publications)
  • Child Development (1 publication)

Frequent collaborators in Gustafsson's research include:

  • Trude Nilsen
  • Agnes Stancel-Piątak
  • Catherine E. Snow
  • Vibeke Grøver
  • Veslemøy Rydland

They have also authored books, including the International Handbook of Comparative Large-Scale Studies in Education, published by Springer Nature in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Beyond dichotomies: Competence viewed as a continuum

    Sigrid Blömeke;Jan-Eric Gustafsson;Richard J. Shavelson

  • A unifying model for the structure of intellectual abilities

    Jan-Eric Gustafsson

  • General and Specific Abilities as Predictors of School Achievement.

    Jan-Eric Gustafsson;Gudrun Balke

  • Individual differences in cognitive functions.

    Jan-Eric Gustafsson;Johan Olav Undheim

  • Hierarchical models of individual differences in cognitive abilities.

    Jan-Eric Gustafsson

  • School, Learning and Mental Health: A systematic review

    Jan-Eric Gustafsson;Mara Allodi Westling;Britta Alin Åkerman;Charli Eriksson

  • Sentence repetition is a measure of children's language skills rather than working memory limitations

    Marianne Klem;Monica Melby-Lervåg;Bente Eriksen Hagtvet;Solveig-Alma Halaas Lyster

  • Testing and obtaining fit of data to the Rasch model

    Jan-Eric Gustafsson

  • The relation between fluid intelligence and the general factor as a function of cultural background: a test of Cattell's investment theory

    Ann Valentin Kvist;Jan-Eric Gustafsson

  • Drivers of organizational creativity: a path model of creative climate in pharmaceutical R&D

    Mats Sundgren;Elof Dimenäs;Jan-Eric Gustafsson;Marcus Selart

  • Individuals, schools, and neighborhood: a multilevel longitudinal study of variation in incidence of psychotic disorders

    Stanley Zammit;Glyn Lewis;Jon Rasbash;Christina Dalman

  • The Hierarchical Organization of Cognitive Abilities: Restoring General Intelligence Through the Use of Linear Structural Relations (LISREL).

    Johan Olav Undheim;Jan-Eric Gustafsson

  • Confirmatory factor analysis and reliability : testing measurement model assumptions

    Sven-Eric Reuterberg;Jan-Eric Gustafsson

  • Effects of age and schooling on intellectual performance: Estimates obtained from analysis of continuous variation in age and length of schooling

    Christina Cliffordson;Jan-Eric Gustafsson

  • A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between changes in socio-economic status and changes in health.

    Björn Halleröd;Jan-Eric Gustafsson

  • Unidimensionality and interpretability of psychological instruments

    Jan-Eric Gustafsson;Lisbeth Åberg-Bengtsson

  • Decline in cognitive performance between ages 13 and 18 years and the risk for psychosis in adulthood: a Swedish longitudinal cohort study in males

    James H. MacCabe;Susanne Wicks;Sofia Löfving;Anthony S. David

  • Measuring Socioeconomic Status at Individual and Collective Levels.

    Yang Yang;Jan-Eric Gustafsson

  • Psychosomatic complaints in schoolchildren: a Nordic comparison.

    L T Berntsson;L Köhler;J E Gustafsson

  • Comparing effects and side effects of different school inspection systems across Europe

    Melanie Catharina Margaretha Ehren;J.E. Gustafsson;H. Altrichter;G. Skedsmo

  • SHORT REPORT Sentence repetition is a measure of children's language skills rather than working memory limitations

    Marianne Klem;Monica Melby-Lervaûg;Bente Hagtvet;Jan-Eric Gustafsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Hulme
Charles Hulme University of Oxford
Ronny Scherer
Ronny Scherer University of Oslo
Sven G. Carlsson
Sven G. Carlsson Lund University
Anthony S. David
Anthony S. David University College London
Monica Melby-Lervåg
Monica Melby-Lervåg University of Oslo
Catherine E. Snow
Catherine E. Snow Harvard University
Mats Granlund
Mats Granlund Jönköping University

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