Comparar métodos

	Investigación Longitudinal	Investigación de Tendencias
Campo	Diseño de investigación	Diseño de investigación
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	Late 19th–early 20th century; methodologically codified through the 20th century	Mid-20th century (formalised in social science methodology ~1950s–1960s)
Autor original	No single originator; foundational methodological treatments by Stuart Menard and Judith Singer & John Willett	Earl Babbie and survey research tradition
Tipo	Quantitative (or mixed) observational research design	Quantitative longitudinal research design
Fuente seminal	Menard, S. (2002). Longitudinal Research (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761922841	Creswell, J. W. (2014). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1452226101
Alias	longitudinal study, longitudinal design, prospective longitudinal study, repeated-measures observational study	trend study, trend survey, longitudinal trend study, time-series survey
Relacionados	4	4
Resumen	Longitudinal research is an observational design in which the same participants, groups, or units are measured repeatedly over an extended period. Rather than capturing a single snapshot, it tracks change, stability, and temporal sequencing of variables — making it the primary non-experimental strategy for studying development, growth, decline, and the unfolding of causal processes across time.	Trend research is a longitudinal quantitative design that tracks changes in a characteristic of a general population over time by surveying different, independently drawn samples at two or more time points. Unlike panel studies, the same individuals are not followed; rather, each wave draws a fresh sample from the same population, allowing researchers to detect population-level shifts in attitudes, behaviours, or conditions while avoiding the attrition and panel conditioning problems of repeated-measures designs.