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{"title":"Multigroup Comparisons with Configural Frequency Analysis.","authors":"Alexander von Eye, Wolfgang Wiedermann","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2025.27572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2025.27572","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lienert's (1973) original approach to comparing groups with Configural Frequency Analysis (CFA) cannot straightforwardly be generalized to the comparison of multiple groups. The present article proposes a new base model for group comparison with CFA. This model allows researchers to compare multiple groups, to evaluate overall model fit, to take covariates into account, and to conduct exploratory and confirmatory analyses. In confirmatory group comparisons, base models need to be specified in which particular configurations are blanked out, and other configurations are explicitly set equal. Reference is made to existing base models, e.g., the configural model of axial symmetry. Data examples are provided in which individuals are compared. Extensions of the new models are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11977777/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143999995","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":"Embodiment and Psychological Health in Adolescence: 2. Embodiment Profiles and their Association with Psychological Health Among Young Adolescents.","authors":"Lars-Gunnar Lundh, Lo Foster, Daiva Daukantaitė","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2025.27578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2025.27578","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Several researchers have argued that disturbances in embodiment play an important role in the development of psychological health problems among adolescents. The purpose of the present study was to use the 12-item Embodiment Scale (ES-12), with its three subscales Harmonious Body (HB), Disharmonious Body (DB), and Body for Others (BO), (1) to identify subgroups of adolescents with different profiles on the ES-12 scales, and (2) to see how these profiles are associated with patterns of psychological health problems.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The participants were 530 adolescents with a mean age of 14 years (<i>SD</i> = 0.89), who filled out the ES-12 and measures of disordered eating, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), anxiety, and depression. Hierarchical cluster analysis was used to divide the sample into (1) subgroups with different profiles of HB, DB and BO and (2) subgroups with different psychological health profiles. Cross-tabulation was used to study associations between different embodiment profiles and different patterns of psychological health problems.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Five different profiles of embodiment were identified: <i>Strong Embodiment, Average Embodiment, Weak Embodiment, Body for Others, and Low Body Harmony</i>. Five different psychological health profiles were identified: <i>Multiple Problems, Multiple Problems without NSSI, Disordered Eating Only, Average Psychological Health,</i> and a <i>Healthy</i> profile. Cross-tabulation showed that individuals with a <i>Strong Embodiment</i> profile were over-represented among adolescents in the <i>Healthy</i> cluster, and that individuals with the <i>Weak Embodiment</i> profile were over-represented in both <i>Multiple Problems</i> clusters. Individuals with a <i>Body for Others</i> profile were overrepresented among adolescents with a <i>Disordered Eating Only</i> profile but not among adolescents with <i>Multiple Problems</i> profiles.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings align with theoretical frameworks which emphasize the importance of embodiment for the understanding of psychological health problems. At the same time, the results go against theories that attribute a central role to high levels of experienced Body for Others for the development of psychological health problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"25-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11977779/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143988259","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":"Embodiment and Psychological Health in Adolescence: 1. Development and Validation of a Brief 12-item Questionnaireto Measure the Experience of Embodiment.","authors":"Lo Foster, Lars-Gunnar Lundh, Daiva Daukantaitė","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2025.27576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2025.27576","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adolescence is characterized by large bodily changes and a heightened body-focus. It is also a sensitive period for the onset of various forms of psychopathology. Previous longitudinal studies have shown that body dissatisfaction is a predictor of disordered eating, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and depression among adolescents. Body dissatisfaction, however, only represents one aspect of bodily self-experience. Another aspect is embodiment, defined as the anchoring of one's identity in bodily self-experience. Research in this area, however, has been hampered by the lack of a psychometrically sound measure of embodiment that can be administered to adolescents. The purpose of the present study was to develop a brief measure of embodiment suitable for young adolescents.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A 12-item Embodiment Scale (ES-12) was developed and underwent confirmatory factor analysis and tests of internal consistency, test-retest reliability, measure invariance, subscale inter-correlations, and construct validity. Incremental validity was analyzed to see if the ES-12 could predict disordered eating, non-suicidal self-injury, depression, and anxiety, above and beyond that of a measure of body dissatisfaction.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The ES-12 was found to exhibit robust psychometric properties, such as a distinct three-factor structure, strong internal consistency, and good test-retest reliability. It demonstrated good convergent and divergent validity, indicating that its three subscales-Harmonious Body, Disharmonious Body, and Body for Others-are significantly associated with a range of psychological health issues in adolescents. In addition, the ES-12 demonstrated consistent incremental validity by predicting disordered eating, NSSI, depression, and anxiety, beyond that of a measure of body dissatisfaction.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results suggest that ES-12 is a useful instrument in research on the experience of embodiment among adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"10-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11977780/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144014118","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":"Treating Fear of Cancer Recurrence with Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing: A Sequential, Randomized Single-Case Experimental Design.","authors":"Pascalle A I Van der Wolf, Melanie P J Schellekens, Marije L van der Lee","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2025.27699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2025.27699","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is defined as \"fear, worry, or concern relating to the possibility that cancer will come back or progress\". After cancer treatment, 20% of patients suffer from clinical fear of cancer recurrence (FCR), warranting specialized treatment. While intrusive catastrophic scenarios are clinical symptoms of FCR, they are rarely the key focus in current FCR treatments. Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) including the flash forward procedure explicitly addresses these intrusions. The present study explored whether EMDR is effective in treating clinical FCR. A sequentially replicated, randomized single-case experimental design was used among six cancer survivors with clinical levels of FCR. During an 84-day period, participants daily registered their FCR level. The Fear of Recurrence Inventory was administered at baseline, EMDR start, EMDR completion and study completion. The start of EMDR was randomized. All participants commented positively on the effect of EMDR during the semi-structured interviews: EMDR helped decrease intrusions and face death anxiety. Visual analysis of daily FCR were in line with these comments. Regression analysis showed a significant decrease of daily FCR in two participants, while the randomization test showed no effects. FCRI scores decreased below clinical levels in all participants, which was considered a reliable change in four participants. There was no drop-out. In light of these mixed findings, EMDR appears a promising treatment for FCR. Further research needs to establish its effectiveness and explore whether diminishing the emotional load of intrusions constitutes the working mechanism of EMDR in FCR.</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"36-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11977781/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053735","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":"Finding a Balance Between Being Professional and Being Personal. Experiences of Seven Psychotherapists.","authors":"Mikael Hörnebrant, Åsa Jeppsson, Mats Hilte","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2025.27723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2025.27723","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this study was to explore factors psychotherapists believe influence their choice of theory, method, and techniques when doing therapeutic work. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six certified psychotherapists and one psychotherapist in training. The interviews were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), a qualitative methodology which explores how individuals make sense of their experiences. With the help of that methodology, we identified four main themes: Congruence, Responsibility, Context, and Flexibility. Our results indicated that practical and theoretical knowledge needs to be synchronized with the individual practitioner's basic personality. This enables the psychotherapists to experience themselves as professionals, as well as being their authentic self. When the professional and personal identity is joined together, a space is created for greater flexibility in the use of methods and techniques. The study also indicated the existence of a habitus among the psychotherapists embodied in a common language, derived from professional training, supervision and collegial discussions. There was also a consensus among the psychotherapists that they, as professionals, need to be independent and autonomous when doing therapeutic work. Permissive and supportive organizations were seen as an important asset, as well as access to colleagues and networks. The participants in the present study characterized their attitudes to clinical work using keywords such as curiosity, presence, and co-creation. It is suggested that therapists constantly walk a fine line between being an expert and at the same time bracketing their professional knowledge to meet the needs of their clients. A main limitation of the present study was that almost all participants belonged to one therapeutic orientation within the field of psychotherapy (family therapy).</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"49-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11977778/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143989592","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":"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}

{"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}