Network models can help focus research on the role of culture and context in psychopathology, but don't discount latent variable models
- PMID: 30940230
- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18001061
Network models can help focus research on the role of culture and context in psychopathology, but don't discount latent variable models
Abstract
Borsboom et al. correctly note that the use of latent variable models in cross-cultural research has resulted in a futile search for universal, biological causes of psychopathology; however, this is not an inevitable outcome of such models. While network analytic approaches require further development, network models have the potential to better elucidate the role of cultural and contextual variables related to psychopathology.
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Reductionism in retreat.Behav Brain Sci. 2019 Jan;42:e32. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18002091. Behav Brain Sci. 2019. PMID: 30940245
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Brain disorders? Not really: Why network structures block reductionism in psychopathology research.Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan 24;42:e2. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17002266. Behav Brain Sci. 2018. PMID: 29361992
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