Understanding Correlates of Change by Modeling Individual Differences in Growth
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 50 (2) , 203-228
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02294247
Abstract
The study of correlates of change is the investigation of systematic individual differences in growth. Our representation of systematic individual differences in growth is built up in two parts: (a) a model for individual growth and, (b) a model for the dependence of parameters in the individual growth models on individual characteristics. First, explicit representations of correlates of change are constructed for various models of individual growth. Second, for the special case of initial status as a correlate of change, properties of collections of growth curves provide new results on the relation between change and initial status. Third, the shortcomings of previous approaches to the assessment of correlates of change are demonstrated. In particular, correlations of residual change measures with exogenous individual characteristics are shown to be poor indicators of systematic individual differences in growth.Keywords
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