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Network models can help focus research on the role of culture and context in psychopathology, but don't discount latent variable models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Nuwan Jayawickreme ,
Andrew Rasmussen ,
Alison Karasz ,
Jay Verkuilen  and
Eranda Jayawickreme
Nuwan Jayawickreme
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Manhattan College, The Bronx, NY 10471. nuwan.jayawickreme@manhattan.eduhttp://manhattan.edu/campus-directory/nuwan.jayawickreme
Andrew Rasmussen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Fordham University, The Bronx, NY 10458. arasmussen@fordham.eduhttp://www.fordham.edu/info/21660/faculty_and_staff/5435/andrew_rasmussen
Alison Karasz
Affiliation:
Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx, NY 10461. alison.karasz@einstein.yu.eduhttp://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/309/alison-karasz/
Jay Verkuilen
Affiliation:
Department of Education Psychology, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY 10016. jverkuilen@gc.cuny.eduhttp://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Jay-Verkuilen
Eranda Jayawickreme
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. jayawide@wfu.eduhttp://college.wfu.edu/sites/eranda-jayawickreme/
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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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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e14
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