Don't Blame the model: Reconsidering the network approach to psychopathology

Psychological Review

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 606-615

  Bringmann, Laura F ^a,b   Eronen, Markus I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Common cause; Latent variable model; Network; Psychometrics; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY;

EID: 85049220929     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000108     Document Type: Article

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