The Person-Oriented Versus the Variable-Oriented Approach: Are They Complementary, Opposites, or Exploring Different Worlds?

By L. Bergman, K. Trost. 2006

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Observations on the Use of Growth Mixture Models in Psychological Research (2007, background): “Given this, Bergman and Trost (2006) noted that GMMs can be considered person centered only if this single variable represents all of the key aspects of the system under study.”
Job demands–resources model in the context of recovery: Testing recovery experiences as mediators (2011, methodology): “Generally, in the future we also need studies approaching recovery from a person-oriented approach (ie, analyses at the subgroup level) instead of the variable-oriented approach (ie, analyses at the whole sample level) used in the present study (see, eg, Bergman & Trost, 2006 , for these approaches”
Disentangling Shape from Level Effects in Person-Centered Analyses: An Illustration Based on University Teachers’ Multidimensional Profiles of Effectiveness (2015, background): “Person-centered approaches (Bergman, Magnusson, & ElKhouri, 2003; Bergman & Trost, 2006) date back to Allport (1937), Myers and McCaulley (1985), and even to Greek philosophers, who first observed that humans need to classify objects to better make sense of their surroundings.”
CHAPTER 25 Latent Class Analysis and Finite Mixture Modeling (2013, unknown): “Weigh the simplicity and clarity of each of the candidate modeJ.s,(Bergman & Trost, 2006) and evaluate rhe utility of the additional classes for the less parsimonious of the candidate models.”
A Developmental, Person-Centered Approach to Exploring Multiple Motivational Pathways in Gifted Underachievement (2013, background): “…is not simply a focus on different types of people, nor should the theory be confounded with or reduced to statistical methods (Bergman, 2000; Bergman & Trost, 2006; Sterba & Bauer, 2010a); rather, the approach constitutes the application of personcentered tenets and principles to a problem…”
The person-oriented approach: A short theoretical and practical guide (2014, background): “A person-oriented and a variable-oriented approach are sometimes compared with regard to their power to predict an important outcome (Asendorpf, 2003; Bergman & Trost, 2006).”
Profiles of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations in Elementary School: A Longitudinal Analysis (2014, background): “Person-centered approaches focus on the constellation of and dynamic interplay among theoretically related variables at the level of the individual (Bergman & Trost, 2006; Laursen & Hoff, 2006; Magnusson, 2003).”