Biography
Daniel Seddig, PhD, is a Sociologist and Head of the Methods Section at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen, Hannover, Germany). His research interests are cross-cultural and longitudinal studies of human values, attitudes, and behavior, and their connection to social issues such as crime, trust in democratic and legal institutions, health, gender roles, and immigration. His methodological expertise is the analysis of longitudinal and comparative data using structural equation modeling. He is currently president of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) and chair of the European Working Group on Quantitative Methods in Criminology in the European Society of Criminology (ESC).
Recent publications
• Seddig, D. (2024). Assessment of the dimensionality and comparability in legal cynicism measurement. Justice Quarterly, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2024.2393197
• Seddig, D. (2024). Latent growth models for count outcomes: Specification, evaluation, and interpretation. Structural Equation Modeling, 31 (1), 182- 198 https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2023.2175684
• Leitgöb, H., Seddig, D., Asparouhov, T., Behr, D., Davidov, E., De Roover, K., Jak, S., Meitinger, K., Menold, N., Muthén, B., Rudnev, M., Schmidt, P., van de Schoot, R. (2023). Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives. Social Science Research, 102805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102805
