The Social consequences and mechanisms of personality: How to analyse longitudinal data from individual, dyadic, round-robin and network designs

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 272-295

  Nestler, Steffen ^a   Grimm, Kevin J ^b   Schönbrodt, Felix D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dyadic data; Longitudinal data analysis; Mediation; Response surface analysis; Social network analysis; Social relations model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928177058     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.1997     Document Type: Article

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