Proposal of a Nonlinear Interaction of Person and Situation (NIPS) model

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Schmitt, Manfred ^a   Gollwitzer, Mario ^b   Baumert, Anna ^a   Blum, Gabriela ^a   Gschwendner, Tobias ^c   Hofmann, Wilhelm ^d   Rothmund, Tobias ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c Family and Life Counseling Bishopric Trier   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interactionism; Person x situation interaction; Rasch model; Strong persons; Strong situations; Weak persons; Weak situations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919455149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00499     Document Type: Article

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