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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455074603321

Autore

Bergman Lars R.

Titolo

Studying individual development in an interindividual context : a person-oriented approach / / Lars R. Bergman, David Magnusson,  Bassam M. El Khouri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

1-282-32181-1

9786612321818

0-8058-3130-4

1-4106-0682-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Collana

Paths Through Life Series ; ; v.Vol 4

Disciplina

155

Soggetti

Developmental psychology - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; 1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; CHAPTER 3 GENERAL METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS; CHAPTER 4 CLASSIFICATION IN A PERSON-ORIENTED CONTEXT; CHAPTER 5 ANALYZING ALL POSSIBLE PATTERNS; CHAPTER 6 SOME METHODS FOR STUDYING PATTERN DEVELOPMENT; CHAPTER 7 EXAMINING THE GENERALIZABILITY OF RESULTS; CHAPTER 8 SLEIPNER, A STATISTICAL PACKAGE FOR PERSON-ORIENTED ANALYSIS; CHAPTER 9 STABILITY AND CHANGE IN PATTERNS OF SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY; CHAPTER 10 DISCUSSION AND DIRECTIONS; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX

SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

During the last decade there has been increased awareness of the limitations of standard approaches to the study of development. When the focus is on variables and relationships, the individual is easily lost.  This book describes an alternative, person-oriented approach in which



the focus is on the individual as a functioning whole. The authors take as their theoretical starting points the holistic-interactionistic research paradigm expounded by David Magnusson and others, and the new developmental science in which connections and interactions between different systems (biological, ps