Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences (eBook)

Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Clark University, where he has taught since 1997. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize in Germany in 1995 and is actively involved in FQS: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung. His general interests are in the cultural organization of mental and affective processes in human development across the life span. He is also interested in psychology’s history as a resource of ideas for contemporary advancement of the discipline, and in theoretical models of human development. Currently his specific research directions include the study of young adults’ self as an autodialogic process. He is the editor of Culture and Psychology, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, and From Past to Future. He is also the founding editor of International Journal of Idiographic Science. Peter Molenaar, Ph.D., is Professor of Human Development at the Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught since 2005. Prior to that, he was Professor of Psychological Methodology, Mathematical Psychology and Psychometrics at the University of Amsterdam. His main interest is in the application of mathematical theories to solve substantive psychological issues. Maria C.D.P. Lyra, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil. She received her doctoral degree in developmental psychology from the University of Sao Paulo in 1988. Her areas of research include developmental models of mother-infant communication, emergence of self in infancy, variability in mother-infant communication, and methodological issues in the study of human development. Nandita Chaudhary, Ph.D. is a Reader in the Department of Child Development, Lady Irwin College, at the University of Delhi. Over the past 20 years, she has been involved with research, teaching, and administration in the area of child and family studies in India. In 1993, she was placed as a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Psychology at Clark University. She is an active member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, the All-India Women’s Educational Fund Association, and the Indian Association for Preschool Education.

Preface 5
Contents 13
Contributors 15
The Unbearable Dynamicity of Psychological Processes: Highlights of the Psychodynamic Theories 29
Reviving Person-Centered Inquiry in Psychology: Why it’s Erstwhile Dormancy? 59
How Methodology Became a Toolbox—And How it Escapes from that Box 72
The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology, or: The Disunity of Psychology as a Working Hypothesis 94
The Experimental Methodology of Constructive Microgenesis 125
The Schema Approach: A Dynamic View on Remembering 148
Against Reification! Praxeological Methodology and its Benefits 166
Grasping the Dynamic Nature of Intersubjectivity 196
Idiographic Data Analysis: Quantitative Methods— From Simple to Advanced 216
Depicting the Dynamics of Living the Life: The Trajectory Equifinality Model 242
Analysis of Intensive Categorical Longitudinal Data 266
Advances in Dynamic Factor Analysis of Psychological Processes 279
Hidden Markov Models for Individual Time Series 293
Multilevel Simultaneous Component Analysis for Studying Intra- Individual Variability and Inter- Individual Differences 314
Idiographic Microgenesis: Re-Visiting the Experimental Tradition of Aktualgenese 342
Dynamic Methods for Research in Education 376
Social Dynamics in Complex Family Contexts and its Study 406
Dynamics of Life-Course Transitions: A Methodological Reflection 428
Dynamic Methodology in Infancy Research 454
Dynamics of Psychotherapy Processes 477
Dramatic Life Courses: Migrants in the Making 498
Innovative Moments and Change Processes in Psychotherapy: An Exercise in New Methodology 514
Techno Parties, Soccer Riots, and Breakdance: Actionistic Orientations as a Principle of Adolescence 548
Dynamic Processes and the Anthropology of Emotions in the Life Course and Aging: Late- Life Love Sentiments and Household Dynamics in Tuareg Psycho- Biographies 562
Synthetic Phenomena and Dynamic Methodologies 588
Developmental Science: Integrating Knowledge About Dynamic Processes in Human Development 616
Cognitive and Interactive Patterning: Processes of Creating Meaning 639
Index 671