Citation

Park, Jonathan J.; Chow, Sy-Miin; Fisher, Zachary F.; & Molenaar, Peter C. M. (2020). Affect and Personality Ramifications of Modeling (Non-)Directionality in Dynamic Network Models. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 36(6), 1009-1023. PMCID: PMC8208647

Abstract

The use of dynamic network models has grown in recent years. These models allow researchers to capture both lagged and contemporaneous effects in longitudinal data typically as variations, reformulations, or extensions of the standard vector autoregressive (VAR) models. To date, many of these dynamic networks have not been explicitly compared to one another. We compare three popular dynamic network approaches – GIMME, uSEM, and LASSO gVAR – in terms of their differences in modeling assumptions, estimation procedures, statistical properties based on a Monte Carlo simulation, and implications for affect and personality researchers. We found that all three dynamic network approaches provided yielded group-level empirical results in partial support of affect and personality theories. However, individual-level results revealed a great deal of heterogeneity across approaches and participants. Reasons for discrepancies are discussed alongside these approaches’ respective strengths and limitations.

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000612

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2020

Journal Title

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Author(s)

Park, Jonathan J.
Chow, Sy-Miin
Fisher, Zachary F.
Molenaar, Peter C. M.

Article Type

Regular

PMCID

PMC8208647

ORCiD

Fisher, Z. - 0000-0003-2744-5141