Focusing Personality Assessment on the Person: Modeling General, Shared, and Person Specific Processes in Personality and Psychopathology

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 502-515

  Wright, Aidan G C ^a   Gates, Kathleen M ^b   Arizmendi, Cara ^b   Lane, Stephanie T ^b   Woods, William C ^a   Edershile, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory assessment; Group iterative multiple model estimation; Idiographic; Nomothetic; Personality dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MODEL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIARY AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS;

EID: 85063609722     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pas0000617     Document Type: Article

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