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Modeling Latent Trait-Change

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Book cover Recent Developments on Structural Equation Models

Part of the book series: Mathematical Modelling: Theory and Applications ((MMTA,volume 19))

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Psychological interventions such as, for example, therapeutic treatments or educational training programs do not aim at ephemeral but primarily at permanent changes in behavior, feelings, attitudes etc., that is, at changes which are not situation-dependent, but rather consistent across situations. Similarly, changes of interest for developmental psychologists are not ephemeral but permanent changes in behavior, abilities, feelings, attitudes etc. Hence, in terms of latent state-trait theory (LST theory; see, e.g., Steyer, Ferring & Schmitt, 1992; Deinzer et al., 1995; or Steyer, Schmitt & Eid, 1999), psychological interventions aim at changing traits, not at changing states, and trait change, not mere State change, is also the primary interest in develop­mental psychology.

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  1. Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

    Rolf Steyer, Sindy Krambeer & Wolfgang Hannöver

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Steyer, R., Krambeer, S., Hannöver, W. (2004). Modeling Latent Trait-Change. In: van Montfort, K., Oud, J., Satorra, A. (eds) Recent Developments on Structural Equation Models. Mathematical Modelling: Theory and Applications, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-1958-6_16

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