{"title":"Testartikel med nytt flöde","authors":"Martin Ramstedt","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2023.25654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2023.25654","url":null,"abstract":"Så här ser ett snyggt Abstract ut. Tack och förlåt.","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":" 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138962943","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":"Searching for meaning in the life of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf: A call to meaningful responses to tragedies.","authors":"T. T. Harry, Roelf van Niekerk","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2023.25815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2023.25815","url":null,"abstract":"Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, born in 1938, is Africa's first elected female head of state. She navigated stressful and traumatic events, including bullying, domestic abuse, persecution, a civil war, witnessing the effects of genocide and navigating a patriarchal system. Nonetheless, Johnson-Sirleaf's determination established her as a global icon who played a significant role in women’s empowerment. Johnson-Sirleaf was purposively selected for this study as she is an extraordinary female political leader. Frankl’s dimensional ontology is employed to describe and explore the life of Johnson-Sirleaf from a psychobiographical perspective using publicly available information. The study focused on the period between 1938 and 2005. The findings suggest that Johnson-Sirleaf transcended psychophysical and psychosocial limitations and crafted a meaningful life. It seems Johnson-Sirleaf was guided by a sense of purpose and used her will to meaning to overcome psychosocial injustices and psychophysical issues. This study illustrates the value of Frankl’s existential theory in illuminating the life histories of extraordinary political leaders and its potential contribution to contemporary mental health challenges.","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"59 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138593426","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":"Person, population, mechanism. Three main branches of psychological science","authors":"Lg Lundh","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2023.25814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2023.25814","url":null,"abstract":"There are different ways of dividing psychology into subdisciplines. The purpose of the present paper is to explore one specific meta-perspective on psychological science, seen as having three main branches: person psychology, population psychology, and mechanism psychology, linked to three different levels of research. Person-level research focuses on psychological phenomena as experienced and enacted by individual persons in their interaction with other persons and other parts of the environment, and in their development over time. Population-level research focuses on populations of individuals, frequencies of various psychological phenomena in a population, risk factors, and population-level effects of various psychological interventions. Mechanism-level research focuses on psychological functioning as explained in terms of neurophysiological mechanisms and information processes at a sub-personal level. It is argued that the failure to differentiate clearly between research questions at these three levels lead to questionable research practices. Most notably, a failure to differentiate clearly between the population level and the person level leads to problem-method mismatches in the form of researchers trying to answer questions about persons by research on populations. Also, because of a failure to differentiate between the person level and the mechanism level, explanations in terms of sub-personal mechanisms are too often seen as providing answers about what occurs at the person level, thereby failing to study persons as intentional agents in interaction with other persons and other parts of the environment. It is argued that a clear differentiation between three levels of psychological science – population, person, and mechanism – may contribute to an increased clarity in these matters and may thereby contribute to the development and maturation of psychological science.","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138592432","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":"Mechanistic or relational worldview for talent identification research in sport science? Both—but with a preference!","authors":"B. Charbonnet, A. Conzelmann","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2023.25813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2023.25813","url":null,"abstract":"This paper situates talent identification research in sport science within the broader context of developmental science, offering a conceptual framework informed by two (meta-)theoretical worldviews: the Cartesian-split-mechanistic and processual-relational worldviews. Al-though these worldviews are not explicitly named in the field of talent identification research, we demonstrate their implicit adoption through theoretical and methodological discourse. After comparing applications, benefits, and limitations of each worldview, we briefly discuss whether their bodies of knowledge are incompatible, competitive, or complementary. We suggest each worldview provides complementary insights with a penchant for generating nomothetic and group-specific and type-specific and idiographic knowledge, respectively.","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"102 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138590763","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}
M Andreasson, J Schenström, J Bjureberg, L Klintwall
{"title":"Perceived Causal Networks: Clinical Utility Evaluated by Therapists and Patients.","authors":"M Andreasson, J Schenström, J Bjureberg, L Klintwall","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2023.25260","DOIUrl":"10.17505/jpor.2023.25260","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Conceptualizing psychiatric disorders as idiosyncratic networks of mutually reinforcing behaviors and emotions has a long history in the form of psychotherapy case conceptualizations created collaboratively by therapist and patient. However, such methods are typically unsystematic and biased by therapist assumptions. An alternative is Perceived Causal Networks (PECAN), a structured online questionnaire in which patients quantify causal relations between problematic behaviors and emotions, and responses are visualized in the form of a network. In the present study, PECAN was evaluated for clinical utility at the start of therapy for five patients screening positive for depression. As expected, the five networks were found to be highly idiosyncratic, with two revealing the expected maintaining feedback loops. Both therapists and patients evaluated the method as useful in the initial phase of a therapy treatment. Although PECAN shows promise as a clinical tool, findings suggest that the method could be improved by including contextual factors maintaining depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"29-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10302660/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9739428","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":"Toward a Typology of Counterproductive Employees: A Person-Oriented Investigation of Counterproductive Work Behavior.","authors":"Justin Travis, S Bartholomew Craig","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2023.25256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2023.25256","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study of counterproductive work behavior (CWB), intentional actions by employees that are deleterious to the organization and/or its stakeholders, has produced research on the dimensionality of CWB, as well as its situational and dispositional antecedents. Absent from these advancements have been investigations into the potential utility of a taxonomy of counterproductive employee types-a \"person-oriented\" approach. Our latent profile analysis (<i>N</i> = 522) suggested a four-profile solution which included one profile with uniformly low rates across CWBs (here termed \"Angels;\" 14% of the sample), and three profiles with higher CWB rates but which were distinguishable by different CWBs being most frequent in each group. Specifically, one profile was distinguished from the Angels group by higher rates of less severe CWBs (misuse of time/resources and poor attendance; 33% of the sample). The other two of the three counterproductive profiles were similar to each other except that one was characterized by higher drug use than the other (14% of the sample). The profiles also differed significantly on narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, and on self-reports of prior arrest and censure by employers. Provided these distinctions among profiles, the treatment and assumptions of employee counterproductivity in research and practice should be revisited, particularly when using models assuming a homogenous, monotonic relationship between counterproductive behaviors across employees. Implications for our conceptual understanding of counterproductivity and applied interventions aimed at reducing CWBs are discussed, alongside recommendations for future person-oriented research on CWB.</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10302662/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10098533","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}
Alexander von Eye, Wolfgang Wiedermann, Stefan von Weber
{"title":"Latent Variables Analysis in Person-Oriented Research.","authors":"Alexander von Eye, Wolfgang Wiedermann, Stefan von Weber","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2023.25258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2023.25258","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we demonstrate that latent variable analysis can be of great use in person-oriented research. Starting with exploratory factor analysis of metric variables, we present an example of the problems that come with generalization of aggregate-level results to subpopulations. Oftentimes, results that are valid for populations do not represent subpopulations at all. This applies to confirmatory factor analysis as well. When variables are categorical, latent class analysis can be used to create latent variables that explain the covariation of observed variables. In an example, we demonstrate that latent class analysis can be applied to data from individuals, when the number of observation points is sufficiently large. In each case of latent variables analysis, the latent variables can be considered moderators of the structure of covariation among observed variables.</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"17-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10302653/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10098540","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}
Chani Nuij, Wouter van Ballegooijen, Arnout C Smit, Derek de Beurs, Remco F P de Winter, Rory C O'Connor, Ad Kerkhof, Jan H Smit, Heleen Riper
{"title":"A Proof of Concept Study on Individual Trends in Suicidal Ideation: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of 5 Patients Over Three Months.","authors":"Chani Nuij, Wouter van Ballegooijen, Arnout C Smit, Derek de Beurs, Remco F P de Winter, Rory C O'Connor, Ad Kerkhof, Jan H Smit, Heleen Riper","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2023.25265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2023.25265","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Suicidal ideation (SI) is a significant and long-lasting mental health problem, with a third of individuals still experiencing SI after two years. To date, most Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) studies of SI have assessed its day-to-day course over one to four consecutive weeks and found no consistent trends in average SI severity over time.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>The current proof of concept study assessed daily fluctuations of SI over a time span of 3 to 6 months to explore whether individual trends in SI severity could be detected, and if so, if the trajectory of changes were gradual or sudden. The secondary aim was to explore whether changes in SI severity could be detected at an early stage.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Five adult outpatients with depression and SI used an EMA app on their smartphone in addition to their regular treatment for 3 to 6 months, where SI was assessed 3 times a day. To detect trends in SI for each patient, three models were tested: a null model, a gradual change model and a sudden change model. To detect changes in SI before a new plateau was reached, Early Warning Signals and Exponentially Weighted Moving Average control charts were used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In each patient, average SI severity had a unique trajectory of sudden and/or gradual changes. Additionally, in some patients, increases in both sudden and gradual SI could be detected at an early stage.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study presents a first indication of unique individual trends in SI severity over a 3 to 6 months period. Though replication in a larger sample is needed to test how well results generalize, a first proof-of-concept is provided that both sudden and gradual changes in SI severity may be detectable at an early stage using the dynamics of time-series data.</p>","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"42-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10302657/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9739426","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 Central Role of the Concept of Person in Psychological Science.","authors":"Lars-Gunnar Lundh","doi":"10.17505/jpor.2022.24853","DOIUrl":"10.17505/jpor.2022.24853","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36744,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Person-Oriented Research","volume":"8 2","pages":"38-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9773942/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10816937","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}