THE PERSON-ORIENTED APPROACH IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Journal Title: Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century - Year 2013, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
Individual differences are a fundamental component of psychology, but these differences are often treated as “noise” or “errors” in variable-oriented statistical analyses. Currently, there is a small but emerging body of research using the person-oriented approach. In this paper a brief theoretical and methodological overview of the person-oriented approach is given. A person-oriented approach is often preferable where the main theoretical and analytical unit is a pattern of operating factors, rather than individual variables. In order to illustrate the relevance of this approach to research in educational psychology several representative statistical methods are outlined, two of which employ a person-oriented approach (latent class analysis/ latent profile analysis, configural frequency analysis/ prediction configural frequency analysis) and one that combines person and variable-oriented approaches. Examples of data analyses are used to demonstrate that variable and personoriented approaches provide the researcher with different information that can be complementary.
Authors and Affiliations
Diana Raufelder, Danilo Jagenow, Frances Hoferichter, Kate Mills Drury
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP32008
- DOI -
- Views 382
- Downloads 0
SOCIAL AND MENTAL REHABILITATION OF THE PATIENTS WITH THE OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER AND HYPOHONDRIASIS
Nowdays the problems of obsessive-compulsive disorders and hypochondriasis have become quite urgent. The disorders are often encountered both in mental institutions and in general medicine clinics. They are resistant t...
CHALLENGES IN SCHOOL ADAPTATION AMONG ADOPTED CHILDREN
The essential, if not the dominant part of a child’s life, takes place in the school environment as well as an adult’s life is spent at work. Therefore, a good relationship at school community and academic achievements a...
THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ GROUP PROJECT ACTIVITY WHILE LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGE
In this research the theoretical principles of psychological analysis of group project activity of students in the process of learning foreign language are defned on the basis of subject-activity, socio-psychological a...
VICTIM-STEREOTYPES OF POSTWAREXPELLEES AND THEIR SOCIAL IMPACTS: SOME REMARKS
Individual or collective coping with stereotypes - as actors or victims - belongs to human history, and shows different expressions, such as “Black and White” in Africa and America, “Jews”, “Sinti and Roma”, and “East...
PSYCHOLOGICAL RECURRENCES AND INTERVENTION PROPOSAL FOR PATIENTS FOLLOWING BARIATRIC SURGERY
Obesity has been declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an epidemic, due to a growth trend in obesity rates over the past 60 years and it is estimated that by 2015 there will be approximately 2.3 billion ov...