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Papers by Michael Eid
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 2009
The dynamics of psychopathological symptoms as a topic of research has been neglected for some ti... more The dynamics of psychopathological symptoms as a topic of research has been neglected for some time, likely because of the inability of cross-sectional and retrospective reports to uncover the ebb and flow of symptoms. Data gathered with the experience sampling method (ESM) enable researchers to study symptom variability and instability over time as well as the dynamic interplay between the
Frontiers in psychology, 2015
Research on students' motivation has shown that motivation can be enhanced or undermined by s... more Research on students' motivation has shown that motivation can be enhanced or undermined by social factors. However, when interpreting such findings, interindividual differences, and intraindividual changes underlying students' perception of peers and teachers as a source of motivation are often neglected. The aim of the present study was to complement our understanding of socio-motivational dependency by investigating differences in the development of students' socio-motivational dependency from early to middle adolescence. Data from 1088 students on their perceptions of peers and teachers as positive motivators when students were in seventh and eighth grade were compared with data of the same sample 2 years later. Latent class analysis supported four different motivation types (MT): (1) teacher-dependent MT, (2) peer-dependent MT, (3) teacher-and-peer-dependent MT, and (4) teacher-and-peer-independent MT. Latent transition analysis revealed substantial changes between ...
Journal of personality and social psychology, 2014
Previous research on unemployment and life satisfaction has focused on the effects of unemploymen... more Previous research on unemployment and life satisfaction has focused on the effects of unemployment on individuals but neglected the effects on their partners. In the present study, we used dyadic multilevel models to analyze longitudinal data from 2,973 couples selected from a German representative panel study to examine the effects of unemployment on life satisfaction in couples over several years. We found that unemployment decreases life satisfaction in both members of the couple, but the effect is more pronounced for those who become unemployed (actors) than for the other couple members (partners). In both couple members, the reaction is attenuated if they share the same labor status after the job loss: Actors experienced a greater drop in life satisfaction if their partners were employed than if they were unemployed at the time of the job loss, and partners reacted negatively to the job loss only if they were employed or inactive in the workforce, but not if they were unemploye...
Asta-advances in Statistical Analysis, 2010
Geiser (Multitrait-multimethod-multioccasion modeling, 2009) recently presented the Correlated St... more Geiser (Multitrait-multimethod-multioccasion modeling, 2009) recently presented the Correlated State-Correlated (Methods-Minus-1) [CS-C(M−1)] model for analysing longitudinal multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) data. In the present article, the authors discuss the extension of the CS-C(M−1) model to a model that includes latent difference variables, called CS-C(M−1) change model. The CS-C(M−1) change model allows investigators to study inter-individual differences in intra-individual change over time, to separate
Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying, describing, and ... more Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying, describing, and communicating one's emotions. The aim of the present study is to examine the usefulness of a typological approach considering the interaction between distinct alexithymic features within a population of high-alexithymic German adults (N = 217). Latent profile analysis (LPA) was employed to test for possible underlying profiles. A 3-profile solution showed the best fit: The profiles can be described as (1) "low": lower load on all facets of alexithymia, (2) "mixed": specific problems on identifying emotions, and (3) "high": higher load on all facets of alexithymia. Moreover, this study tested how these profiles differed in psychological distress. "Mixed" profile, with specific problems on identifying emotions showed the highest levels of psychological distress. The present study suggests the importance of a specific combination of alexithymic features, rather than total alexithymia scores, as a risk factor for psychological distress.
Psychologische Messungen unterliegen einer Vielzahl von Einflüssen. Die Ausprägung der Ängstlichk... more Psychologische Messungen unterliegen einer Vielzahl von Einflüssen. Die Ausprägung der Ängstlichkeit von Schulkindern beispielsweise hängt nicht nur von ihrer dispositionellen Ängstlichkeit, sondern auch von situativen Einflüssen (die bekannt oder unbekannt sind) ab, wie z.B. dem gerade wütenden Sturm oder dem Albtraum der letzten Nacht. Außerdem fallen die Messungen je nach Messmethode, z.B. ob die Schüler sich selbst einschätzen oder ob
Journal of Personality, 2003
The relation between sociability and positive affect is one of the most often replicated results ... more The relation between sociability and positive affect is one of the most often replicated results of research on personality and subjective well-being. It is shown how behavior genetics can contribute to our understanding of the covariance between sociability and positive emotionality. The results of a multimethod behavior-genetic study with 158 monozygotic and 120 dizygotic twins are reported. In this study,
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
European Journal of Ageing, 2006
The World Health Organization has developed a brief generic questionnaire to assess quality of li... more The World Health Organization has developed a brief generic questionnaire to assess quality of life, the WHOQOL-BREF. It has been studied in diverse groups, but not specifically in older people. The purpose of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the French version of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire in healthy older people and to compare the mean profiles of
Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Multimethod data analysis is a complex procedure that is often used to examine the degree to whic... more Multimethod data analysis is a complex procedure that is often used to examine the degree to which different measures of the same construct converge in the assessment of this construct. Several authors have called for a greater understanding of the definition and meaning of method effects in different models for multimethod data. In this article, we compare 2 recently proposed
Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Social Indicators Research, 2000
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 2009
The dynamics of psychopathological symptoms as a topic of research has been neglected for some ti... more The dynamics of psychopathological symptoms as a topic of research has been neglected for some time, likely because of the inability of cross-sectional and retrospective reports to uncover the ebb and flow of symptoms. Data gathered with the experience sampling method (ESM) enable researchers to study symptom variability and instability over time as well as the dynamic interplay between the
Frontiers in psychology, 2015
Research on students' motivation has shown that motivation can be enhanced or undermined by s... more Research on students' motivation has shown that motivation can be enhanced or undermined by social factors. However, when interpreting such findings, interindividual differences, and intraindividual changes underlying students' perception of peers and teachers as a source of motivation are often neglected. The aim of the present study was to complement our understanding of socio-motivational dependency by investigating differences in the development of students' socio-motivational dependency from early to middle adolescence. Data from 1088 students on their perceptions of peers and teachers as positive motivators when students were in seventh and eighth grade were compared with data of the same sample 2 years later. Latent class analysis supported four different motivation types (MT): (1) teacher-dependent MT, (2) peer-dependent MT, (3) teacher-and-peer-dependent MT, and (4) teacher-and-peer-independent MT. Latent transition analysis revealed substantial changes between ...
Journal of personality and social psychology, 2014
Previous research on unemployment and life satisfaction has focused on the effects of unemploymen... more Previous research on unemployment and life satisfaction has focused on the effects of unemployment on individuals but neglected the effects on their partners. In the present study, we used dyadic multilevel models to analyze longitudinal data from 2,973 couples selected from a German representative panel study to examine the effects of unemployment on life satisfaction in couples over several years. We found that unemployment decreases life satisfaction in both members of the couple, but the effect is more pronounced for those who become unemployed (actors) than for the other couple members (partners). In both couple members, the reaction is attenuated if they share the same labor status after the job loss: Actors experienced a greater drop in life satisfaction if their partners were employed than if they were unemployed at the time of the job loss, and partners reacted negatively to the job loss only if they were employed or inactive in the workforce, but not if they were unemploye...
Asta-advances in Statistical Analysis, 2010
Geiser (Multitrait-multimethod-multioccasion modeling, 2009) recently presented the Correlated St... more Geiser (Multitrait-multimethod-multioccasion modeling, 2009) recently presented the Correlated State-Correlated (Methods-Minus-1) [CS-C(M−1)] model for analysing longitudinal multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) data. In the present article, the authors discuss the extension of the CS-C(M−1) model to a model that includes latent difference variables, called CS-C(M−1) change model. The CS-C(M−1) change model allows investigators to study inter-individual differences in intra-individual change over time, to separate
Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying, describing, and ... more Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying, describing, and communicating one's emotions. The aim of the present study is to examine the usefulness of a typological approach considering the interaction between distinct alexithymic features within a population of high-alexithymic German adults (N = 217). Latent profile analysis (LPA) was employed to test for possible underlying profiles. A 3-profile solution showed the best fit: The profiles can be described as (1) "low": lower load on all facets of alexithymia, (2) "mixed": specific problems on identifying emotions, and (3) "high": higher load on all facets of alexithymia. Moreover, this study tested how these profiles differed in psychological distress. "Mixed" profile, with specific problems on identifying emotions showed the highest levels of psychological distress. The present study suggests the importance of a specific combination of alexithymic features, rather than total alexithymia scores, as a risk factor for psychological distress.
Psychologische Messungen unterliegen einer Vielzahl von Einflüssen. Die Ausprägung der Ängstlichk... more Psychologische Messungen unterliegen einer Vielzahl von Einflüssen. Die Ausprägung der Ängstlichkeit von Schulkindern beispielsweise hängt nicht nur von ihrer dispositionellen Ängstlichkeit, sondern auch von situativen Einflüssen (die bekannt oder unbekannt sind) ab, wie z.B. dem gerade wütenden Sturm oder dem Albtraum der letzten Nacht. Außerdem fallen die Messungen je nach Messmethode, z.B. ob die Schüler sich selbst einschätzen oder ob
Journal of Personality, 2003
The relation between sociability and positive affect is one of the most often replicated results ... more The relation between sociability and positive affect is one of the most often replicated results of research on personality and subjective well-being. It is shown how behavior genetics can contribute to our understanding of the covariance between sociability and positive emotionality. The results of a multimethod behavior-genetic study with 158 monozygotic and 120 dizygotic twins are reported. In this study,
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, 2012
European Journal of Ageing, 2006
The World Health Organization has developed a brief generic questionnaire to assess quality of li... more The World Health Organization has developed a brief generic questionnaire to assess quality of life, the WHOQOL-BREF. It has been studied in diverse groups, but not specifically in older people. The purpose of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the French version of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire in healthy older people and to compare the mean profiles of
Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Multimethod data analysis is a complex procedure that is often used to examine the degree to whic... more Multimethod data analysis is a complex procedure that is often used to examine the degree to which different measures of the same construct converge in the assessment of this construct. Several authors have called for a greater understanding of the definition and meaning of method effects in different models for multimethod data. In this article, we compare 2 recently proposed
Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Social Indicators Research, 2000