Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here for more information

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Adolescent Research
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Bergman, L. R.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

A Person Approach in Research on Adolescence

Some Methodological Challenges

Lars R. Bergman

Stockholm University

Research on adolescence has to face a number of methodological challenges, which tend to be particularly relevant for studies concerning this period of life. Some of these issues are addressed in this article. First, a metatheoretical perspective is introduced in the form of the person approach, which is based on the holistic-interactionistic research paradigm. In a person approach the individual as a "functioning whole" is central and not the variable, as is the usual case. This perspective has consequences both for the theoretical thinking and for the methodological approach. A short overview is given of major types of pattern-based methods often used for carrying out a person approach. Against this background, some methodological challenges for research on adolescence are discussed: Studying growth in patterns or configurations, interindividual differences in maturational tempo, a dynamic versus a static perspective, and prediction and explanation.

Journal of Adolescent Research, Vol. 16, No. 1, 28-53 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/0743558401161004
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J Interpers ViolenceHome page
P. S. Nurius and R. J. Macy
Heterogeneity Among Violence-Exposed Women: Applying Person-Oriented Research Methods
J Interpers Violence, March 1, 2008; 23(3): 389 - 415.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Journal of Family IssuesHome page
N. G. Neblett
Patterns of Single Mothers' Work and Welfare Use: What Matters for Children's Well-Being?
Journal of Family Issues, August 1, 2007; 28(8): 1083 - 1112.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 The Journal of Early AdolescenceHome page
P. Zettergren
Cluster Analysis in Sociometric Research: A Pattern-Oriented Approach to Identifying Temporally Stable Peer Status Groups of Girls
The Journal of Early Adolescence, February 1, 2007; 27(1): 90 - 114.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Research on AgingHome page
R. Crosnoe and G. H. Elder Jr.
From Childhood to the Later Years: Pathways of Human Development
Research on Aging, November 1, 2004; 26(6): 623 - 654.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 International Journal of Behavioral DevelopmentHome page
K. van Leeuwen, F. de Fruyt, and I. Mervielde
A longitudinal study of the utility of the resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled personality types as predictors of children's and adolescents' problem behaviour
International Journal of Behavioral Development, May 1, 2004; 28(3): 210 - 220.
[Abstract] [PDF]