Luigia Simona Sica, Anna Parola, Barbara De Rosa, Massimiliano Sommantico, Elisabetta Fenizia, Jacopo Postiglione, Giorgio Maria Regnoli, Santa Parrello
{"title":"Meaning Matters: A Person-Centered Investigation of Meaning in Life, Future Time Perspective, and Well-Being in Young Adults.","authors":"Luigia Simona Sica, Anna Parola, Barbara De Rosa, Massimiliano Sommantico, Elisabetta Fenizia, Jacopo Postiglione, Giorgio Maria Regnoli, Santa Parrello","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2024.27189","DOIUrl":"10.17505/jpor.2024.27189","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Within the framework of positive psychology, this study aims to investigate whether meaning in life, optimism and future orientation have acted together as a psychological resource in coping with a non-normative challenge such as the Covid-19 pandemic. 389 respondents participated in this study. Future time perspective, presence/search for meaning in life, life orientation and dimensions of well-being (anxiety, depression, stress and aggressive behavior) were assessed. A person-centered approach through latent profile analysis (stepwise approach) was employed. In addition, multinomial logistic regression was used to investigate whether gender, age group, student/employment status and loss episodes during the pandemic predicted profile membership. Latent profile analysis identified three profiles: Aggressive coping (Profile 1, 30%, n = 117), Perspective coping (Profile 2, 29%, n = 114), and Flattened coping (Profile 3, 41%, n = 158). The results support the hypothesis that the presence of meaning in life, a positive life orientation and a positive view of the future act as coping strategies against stressful situations. Practical implications for supporting these resources in young people are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"10 2","pages":"104-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11660339/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142877127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Merlijn Olthof, Andrea Bunge, Dominique F Maciejewski, Fred Hasselman, Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
{"title":"Transitions and Resilience in Ecological Momentary Assessment: A Multiple Single-Case Study.","authors":"Merlijn Olthof, Andrea Bunge, Dominique F Maciejewski, Fred Hasselman, Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2024.27102","DOIUrl":"10.17505/jpor.2024.27102","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of affect, cognition and behavior aims to provide a 'window into a person's daily life'. But what should we look for through this window? In this paper, we compare a statistical perspective, grounded in probability theory, with a dynamic pattern perspective, grounded in complexity theory, on two common phenomena in EMA data: non-stationarity and outlying values. From a statistical perspective, these phenomena are considered nuisances that should be dealt with. From a dynamic pattern perspective, in contrast, non-stationarity may signal transitions from one dynamic pattern to another (e.g., a transition from a neutral to a persistent sad mood), whereas outlying values may signal recovery from perturbations (e.g., stressful life events). We evaluated the dynamic pattern view with a triangulation study of multiple single cases that took part in the Track your Mood EMA study, where participants reported on their emotions and daily events for 60 days. We found that non-stationarity was indeed related to a pattern transition, whereas outlying values were related to recovery after perturbations. These findings show that person-oriented EMA research would benefit from a dynamic pattern perspective that can identify highly meaningful and clinically relevant phenomena that are otherwise at risk of being missed. Complementing EMA time series with contextual information and qualitative data will be essential to genuinely understand these phenomena.</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"10 2","pages":"89-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11660334/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142877530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 10th yearly volume of JPOR is complete.","authors":"Lars-Gunnar Lundh, Lars R Bergman","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2024.27101","DOIUrl":"10.17505/jpor.2024.27101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"10 2","pages":"85-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11660329/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142877604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Further Critical Reflections on the Notion of a \"Population Psychology\".","authors":"James T Lamiell","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2024.27103","DOIUrl":"10.17505/jpor.2024.27103","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present article extends critical considerations that I offered in an earlier article challenging the proposition by Lundh that population-level research should be regarded as a branch of psychological science. It is again acknowledged that population-level research can track the incidence of psychological phenomena, i.e., sensations, perceptions, judgments, cognitions, emotions, behaviors, etc., within and across various subgroups of individuals, and this, I argue, is what warrants the designation of such research as \"psycho-demographic.\" Such research can complement, but should not be considered part of, psychological science. It is explained that this view does not require strict adherence to a mechanistic understanding of causation in the domain of psychological phenomena. Finally, it is suggested that drawing and maintaining a clear distinction between psycho-demography and psychological science will help to correct the long-prevalent but false notion that the knowledge produced by population-level research is interpretable as knowledge about individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"10 2","pages":"100-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11660320/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142877084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Person, population, mechanism. A rejoinder to critics and an elaboration of the three-branch model","authors":"Lg Lundh","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2024.26295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2024.26295","url":null,"abstract":"In a previous paper (Lundh, 2023), it was argued that psychological science can be seen as having three main branches, corresponding to three levels of research: research at the person level, at the population level, and at the mechanism level. The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the critique that has been raised against this model by Lamiell (2024) and Nilsson (2024) and to elaborate and specify the three-branch model in more detail. This is done by an incorporation of Nilsson’s concept of person-sensitivity into the model, and by a clearer differentiation between the two contrasts involved: (1) the methodological focus either on individual persons or on populations of individuals; and (2) the theoretical focus either on whole-person functioning or on sub-personal mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"119 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141105706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On persons, populations, and causal mechanisms. Some critical reflections on Lundh (2023).","authors":"James T. Lamiell","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2024.26272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2024.26272","url":null,"abstract":"While agreeing with Lundh (2023) on many of his major points, this article also questions the notion of a ‘population psychology.’ It is argued that the knowledge produced in population-level studies, whether correlational, experimental, or mixed, is inherently demographic in nature. Concerning individual-level studies, agreement with Lundh (2023) is expressed concerning the need to distinguish between a conception of individuals as mere depositories of neurophysiological mechanisms on the one hand, and as active, purposeful agents on the other. It is suggested that the conceptual framework called ‘critical personalism’ would well serve a scientific psychology committed to the latter view.","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"18 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141104602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring types of parent attachment via the clustering modules of a new free statistical software, ROP-R","authors":"András Vargha, Ferenc Grezsa","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2024.26255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2024.26255","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the paper is threefold: (1) to demonstrate the rich repertoire of clustering capabilities of a ROPstat and R-based new and free software, called ROP-R, by illustrating several analyses with real psychological data; (2) to show how well ROP-R works in tandem with ROPstat software in complex classification analyses; and (3) to explore some nontrivial types of parent attachment using the clustering modules of ROP-R. Four modules of ROP-R are available for performing cluster analyses (CAs), with several methods (e.g., divisive hierarchical CA, k-medoids CA, k-medians CA, model-based CA) not found in other user-friendly menu-driven software. In the paper, mother and father attachment data are used from a study with adolescents (Mirnics et al., 2021) to illustrate how the ROP-R software can be used to perform various CAs and evaluate the results using attractive graphs and useful tables. Comparing different clustering methods, it was found that both standard AHCA and k-means CA could discover a 7-type structure, which was also verified by the nonstandard k-medians CA. However, the nonstandard k-medoids CA and MBCA methods were not very effective in identifying a structure with an acceptable overall homogeneity. Nevertheless, they were able to identify some types through extremely homogeneous clusters.","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"33 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141104131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefan G. Hofmann, Bruno Pereira, Carolina Barbosa, Cameron E. Lindsay
{"title":"Comment on Lundh (2023)","authors":"Stefan G. Hofmann, Bruno Pereira, Carolina Barbosa, Cameron E. Lindsay","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2024.26273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2024.26273","url":null,"abstract":"In this commentary of Lundh’s (2023) article, we point to an individualized process-based approach for the future of psychotherapy. The traditional nomothetic research paradigm is limiting our understanding of processes of change, oversimplifying psychological phenomena, and neglecting individual dynamics. In contrast, a process-based approach calls for ideographic methodologies, departing from the latent-disease paradigm toward process-based interventions. Process-based research promises avenues for enhancing intervention science and a deeper comprehension about psychopathology and therapeutic mechanisms, in a comprehensive, personalized, and holistic manner.","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"29 31","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141104035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Atika Khurana, Heather Leonard, Laura Michaelson, Derek Kosty
{"title":"Transactional linkages between parenting behaviors and child executive functions and self-regulation from early childhood to adolescence","authors":"Atika Khurana, Heather Leonard, Laura Michaelson, Derek Kosty","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2024.26261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2024.26261","url":null,"abstract":"Research on the development of executive functions (EFs) and self-regulation (SR) has focused heavily on the early childhood years, when these abilities first emerge. Less is known in comparison about how these abilities develop through adolescence, and how contextual factors, such as parenting, influence their development in later years. Using longitudinal data from the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD), we used random intercept cross-lagged panel modeling (RI-CLPM) to examine the bidirectional linkages between three parenting behaviors (i.e., autonomy support, supportive presence, hostility), child EFs (i.e., working memory, inhibitory control) and child SR outcomes, from early childhood to adolescence. Parenting in early childhood was significantly associated with change in child EFs from early to middle childhood, but not from middle childhood to adolescence. Specifically, greater autonomy support in early childhood was associated with stronger child working memory and inhibitory control in middle childhood; greater supportive presence in early childhood was associated with stronger child working memory in middle childhood; and higher rates of hostility in early childhood were associated with weaker child inhibitory skills in middle childhood. Reciprocal effects of child EF and SR on parenting were also observed. Specifically, stronger child inhibitory control in early childhood was associated with less hostility in middle childhood, and stronger child self-regulation in middle childhood was associated with greater supportive presence in adolescence. Accounting for lagged and stability effects, there was significant residual covariance between parenting behaviors and child SR in adolescence, suggesting that parenting continues to be associated with the development of SR skills through adolescence. Understanding reciprocal linkages between parenting and child EF/SR through adolescence is critical in developing targeted parenting interventions beyond early childhood to improve children’s outcomes.","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141106996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opening Pandora’s Box: Person-sensitive conceptualization and measurement in psychological science","authors":"Artur Nilsson","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2024.26271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2024.26271","url":null,"abstract":"Although distinctions between the study of persons, the study of populations, and the study of mechanisms are helpful for illuminating mismatches between research assumptions, problems, and methods, it may be difficult to construe these as entirely discrete branches of psychological science. I suggest that it is more appropriate to view person-levelness (or person-sensitivity) as an ideal we should actively aspire toward, within the constraints placed by other goals such as generalizability and feasibility, when pursuing knowledge about individuals. It is an ideal that we can never hope to perfectly realize—the degree to which it is realized will always be a matter of degree, and there is therefore no clear line of demarcation between the person level and other branches of psychology. This ideal can nonetheless stimulate more person-sensitive conceptualizations, measurements, and analyses.","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"23 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141107225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}