Longitude-EDS Software System

The software system is designed for a wide range of educational, research and diagnostic tasks in the area of psychology and education. The system includes two main interfaces in line with two key areas of application:

• An applicative system Longitude, developed on the basis of Longitude Expert system -  individual follow-up of children's growth and development; specifically, on its basic version (Longitude B) designed for preschool age. Currently it is being expanded to Longitude+ version with addition of applied methods for a wider range of age groups and application areas.
• Experimental-Diagnostic System (EDS) is designed for education and research purposes. It is a set of diagnostic, research and educational methods, developed for educational use at the faculties of psychology in the following context: training workshops,  collection and processing of experimental data (from term papers and  graduate thesis to degree dissertations), data collection as may be required for adaptation and standardization of methods, which do not have modern adapted versions.

For ease of reference, you may choose an interface most suitable for your work – applied or research educational. Switching between interfaces is possible at any stage of operation. General correlation between interfaces and their versions (basic, “B” and expanded, “+”) is shown in the table below.

Longitude Expert System applied focus, commercial distribution
Longitude +			Experiments, dissertation research, cognitive modeling, as well as beta versions of new methods
Longitude B	Methods for adults and adolescents
Methods for preschool age are developed in cooperation with psycho educational socio medical centers (PSC)	Developed in cooperation with PSC-centers for applicative use	Developed in cooperation with the authors, members of the faculty staff, to the order of the Faculty of Psychology of St. Petersburg State University for research application
		EDS B
EDS+
EDS (Experimental and Diagnostic System) education and experiment focus, non-commercial distribution
Other original techniques, distributed separately under the agreement with the authors (standard distributives EDS B and EDS + may only contain their demo versions); means of textual interpretation for Luescher tests, paired comparisons and other methods, which is specified in method description in the guidance materials.

Techniques included in the current software version

Questionnaire: personality, temperament, character

Cattell 's personality questionnaire, adapted and modified children's version (CPQ) / R. Cattell personality factor questionnaire (CPQ – children's)

Meaning of life orientation test / Purpose in life Test — PIL, Russian modification

Ajzenk test (G. Ajzenk) / EPI (Eysenck Personality Inventory)

E.P.Ilyn and P.A.Kovalyov method

Cattell's personality factor model. Form C.  / Raymond Cattell's 16 Personality Factors Model (16 PF) Form C.

Cattell's 14 personality factor model (teenage version – 14PF)

Assessment of nervous system qualities manifestation questionnaire

Modified questionnaire for identification of teenager character type accentuation

Accentuations analysis (Shmishek test)

Evaluation of willingness to risk taking (G.Schubert questionnaire)

Investigation technique for certain key psychical features of neurosis patients (questionnaire by L.G.Pervov)

Questionnaires: emotional sphere of the personality

Individual anxiety test of a person as an individual, an actor and a personality (Y.V.Ostapchuk, G.B.Sukhodolsky)

Mental stress tolerance teacher assessment questionnaire

Questionnaire: motivation and will

Questionnaire for key vocational motives research

Definition of success-seeking motivation level (A.Mekhrabian)

Definition of affiliation motivation level (A.Mekhrabian)

Self-control scale

Vocational interests chart

Vocational preparedness questionnaire  /  Professional aptitude questionnaire

Subjective control test  (Rotter's Locus of Control Scale)

Questionnaires: states of personality

Differential self-assessment of functional state test (SAM: state, activity, mood)

Neuropsychic state assessment scale (V.I.Butov, N.A.Kurgansky, V.I.Suslov)

Depression scale (T.I.Balasheva)

Clinical questionnaire for definition and assessment of neurotic states (K.K. Yakhin, D.M. Mendelevich)

Assessment method of mental burn-out in man-man system occupations.  / Mental Burnout Inventory (N.E.Vodopyanova, E.C.Starchenkova)

Assessment of socio-psychological adaptation of secondary school teachers

Diagnostic method of emotional burn-out level (V.V. Boiko) / Boyko Emotional Burnout Method.

Chronic fatigue degree questionnaire

Acute fatigue assessment questionnaire

Acute mental fatigue assessment questionnaire (A.B. Leonova, N.N. Savicheva)

State of frustration definition

Diagnostics of social frustration level

Questionnaires: interpersonal relations

Potential for empathy test (I.M.Yusupov)

“Group motivation” test (V.A. Rozanova)

Parental attitude test (A.Y.Varga, V.V.Stolin)

“Adolescents about parents” test / “Adolescents about parents” test (ADOR, Russian version)

Sociometry

Developmental Scales

Expert evaluation of development level (Longitude Expert System)

Developmental scale (Longitude Expert System)

School level intelligence test

Intelligence structure test (R. Amthauer) (modified by L.A. Yasyukova)

Projective Methods

Projective method of school anxiety diagnosis (E.W. Amen, N. Renison, A.M. Prikhozhan)

Luscher-test

Method of paired comparisons

Colour relations projective test

Projective color sociometry

Color preference test

Data processing of a color methods package for the group

Typical ranking range

Projective drawing tests

Methods of adjacent areas

Anamnesis

Individual follow-up chart / Card of individual development

Sensomotor methods

PC set-up for threshold methods

Simple sensomotor reaction (light) / Simple sensomotor response to light

Simple sensomotor reaction (sound) / Simple sensomotor response to sound

Threshold stimulus (light)

Assessment method of human functional status “Search for numbers” (V.I. Butov, N.A. Kurgansky, I.M. Dashkov)

Burdon's test

Tapping test (ТТ)

Sensomotor reaction tests

Response to a moving object and time measurement test

Schulte's tables

Cognitive Modeling

Oscillatory model questionnaire

Free experiment with oscillatory model

Neural network questionnaire

Free experiment with neural network questionnaire

Specific Methods of Investigation

“Ambiguous figure” experiment

Basic needs investigation methods

Priming diagnostics

Structure of needs

Implicit association test

PD (perceptual defence) - Priming

PD (perceptual defence) – Emerging words

PD (perceptual defence) - Association experiment

PD (perceptual defence)– Dropping words

Phi phenomenon  (M. Wertheimer)

Priming effect

Field of application of the Software System: general psychology, experimental psychology, social psychology, psychology of relationships, psychology of a personality, communication psychology, gender psychology (psychology of a man, of a woman), clinical psychology, practical psychology, education theory, educational psychology, legal psychology, psychology of management, family psychology, child psychology, developmental psychology, history of psychology, labor psychology, special psychology, methodology and techniques in psychology, applied psychology.

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Longitude-EDS is being developed at the Faculty of Psychology of St. Petersburg State University in parallel with other projects, which have common program and content units, distributed as one installation package:

EDS – experimental diagnostic system of psycho-diagnostic methods for research and education.

NPS – a research project on computer modeling of neuropsychological systems based on neural network and oscillatory approaches.

Technically, this project is also linked to the development of the descriptive basis of psychological methods – an online catalogue of research and diagnostic methods, applied at the Faculty of Psychology of St. Petersburg State University.