Frontmatter -- Series Editors Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I. Social and Behavioral Sciences Reports -- Regional Diversity and Familial Forms of Life Structural and Social Conditions of Child Socialization / Bertram, Hans -- Is There Social Change? Photographs as a Means of Contrasting Individual Development and Societal Change in the New States of Germany / Boehnke, Klaus -- Adolescent Peer Relations in Times of Social Change / Noack, Peter -- Child Poverty in East Germany The Interaction of Institution Transfer and Family Type in the Transformation Process / Nauck, Bernhard / Joos, Magdalena -- Qualities of Childrens Friendships in Middle Childhood in East- and West Berlin / Krappmann, Lothar / Uhlendorff, Harald / Oswald, Hans -- Future Oriented Control and Subjective Well-being of Students in East- and West-Berlin / Sydow, Hubert / Wagner, Christine / Jülisch, Bernd-Rüdiger / Kauf, Hagen -- Risk Conditions and Developmental Patterns of Mental Disorders from Childhood to Early Adulthood Results from Two Longitudinal Studies in Rostock and Mannheim / Ihle, Wolfgang / Esser, Günter / Schmidt, Martin H. / Blanz, Bernd / Reis, Olaf / Meyer-Probst, Bernhard -- The Influence of Changing Contexts and Historical Time on the Timing of Initial Vocational Choices / Vondracek, Fred W. / Reitzle, Matthias / Silbereisen, Rainer . -- Social Change and Individual Development in East Germany: A Methodological Critique / Trommsdorff, Gisela -- Part II. Methods -- The Time of the Wende: Social Change and the Reception of Political Broadcasting in the German Democratic Republic. Time-Series Analyses of News Usage / Bretz, H. Joachim / Weber, René / Gmel, Gerhard / Schmitz, Bernhard -- Standard and Non-Standard Log-linear Models for Analyzing Change in Categorical Variables / Eye, Alexander von -- A Strategy for Data Reanalysis in Longitudinal Studies / Spiel, Christiane -- Analysis of Emotional Response Patterns for Adolescent Stepsons Using P-Technique Factor Analysis / Rovine, Michael J. / Molenaar, Peter C. M. / Corneal, Sherry E. -- Dynamic Factor Analysis of Emotional Dispositions of Adolescent Stepsons Towards Their Stepfathers / Molenaar, Peter C. M. / Rovine, Michael J. / Corneal, Sherry E. -- Event History Analysis in Human Developmental Research / Yamaguchi, Kazuo / Jin, Lei -- Contributors