Variable-Centered and Person-Centered Approaches to Studying Mexican-Origin Mother–Daughter Cultural Orientation Dissonance

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The Structure of Character Strengths: Variable- and Person-Centered Approaches

This article examines the structure of character strengths (Peterson and Seligman, 2004) following both variable-centered and person-centered approaches. We used the International Personality Item Pool-Values in Action (IPIP-VIA) questionnaire. The IPIP-VIA measures 24 character strengths and consists of 213 direct and reversed items. The present study was conducted in a heterogeneous group of ...

Situational similarity and behavioral consistency : Subjective , objective , variable - centered , and person - centered approaches q

Personality psychology has long recognized the importance of situations for determining behavior, but little research has directly examined the degree to which the cross-situational consistency of behavior is associated with the similarity of situations. In two studies, participants (n1⁄4 138 & 116) engaged in several dyadic interactions, and their behavior was coded from a videotaped record. B...

Social cognition, psychopathological symptoms, and family functioning in a sample of inpatient adolescents using variable-centered and person-centered approaches.

The process of diagnosis and treatment planning for adolescents requires clinicians to integrate information about various domains of functioning especially: clinical signs and symptoms, social cognition and family functioning. In the current study we applied an integrative analytic approach to mirror case conceptualization by clinicians. Our analyses were performed on the data gathered from th...

Person-centered dementia care and the cultural matrix of othering.

PURPOSE The dominant clinical view of dementia and its treatment are through the biomedical lens-an approach to understanding the dementias that focuses on bodily and mental pathology and symptomology. Person-centered care (PCC) represents a shift in focus away from biomedical approach in elder care. The primary objective of this research was to examine how PCC was defined, shaped, and practice...