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Focusing personality assessment on the person: Modeling general, shared, and person specific processes in personality and psychopathology.

Authors :
Wright, Aidan G. C.
Gates, Kathleen M.
Arizmendi, Cara
Lane, Stephanie T.
Woods, William C.
Edershile, Elizabeth A.
Source :
Psychological Assessment. Apr2019, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p502-515. 14p.
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

Personality and psychopathology are composed of dynamic and interactive processes among diverse psychological systems, manifesting over time and in response to an individual's natural environment. Ambulatory assessment techniques promise to revolutionize assessment practices by allowing access to the dynamic data necessary to study these processes directly. Assessing manifestations of personality and psychopathology naturalistically in an individual's own ecology allows for dynamic modeling of key behavioral processes. However, advances in dynamic data collection have highlighted the challenges of both fully understanding an individual (via idiographic models) and how s/he compares with others (as seen in nomothetic models). Methods are needed that can simultaneously model idiographic (i.e., person-specific) processes and nomothetic (i.e., general) structure from intensive longitudinal personality assessments. Here we present a method, group iterative multiple model estimation (GIMME) for simultaneously studying general, shared (i.e., in subgroups), and person-specific processes in intensive longitudinal behavioral data. We first provide an introduction to the GIMME method, followed by a demonstration of its use in a sample of individuals diagnosed with personality disorder who completed daily diaries over 100 consecutive days. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10403590
Volume :
31
Issue :
4
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Psychological Assessment
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
135619914
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000617