TY - JOUR
T1 - The Social Relations Model for Count Data
T2 - An Exploration of Intergenerational Co-Activity within Families
AU - Loncke, Justine
AU - Cook, William L.
AU - Neiderhiser, Jenae M.
AU - Loeys, Tom
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The social relations model (SRM) is typically used to identify sources of variance in interpersonal dispositions in families. Traditionally, it uses dyadic measurements that are obtained from a round-robin design, where each family member rates each other family member. Those dyadic measurements are mostly considered to be continuous, but we, however, will discuss how the SRM can be adapted to count dyadic measurements. Such SRM for count data can be formulated in the SEM-framework by viewing it as a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), but it can also be defined in the multilevel framework. These two frameworks result in equivalent models of which the parameters can be estimated using maximum likelihood estimation or a Bayesian approach. We perform a simulation study to compare the performance of those two estimators. As an illustration, we consider intergenerational co-activity data from a block design and contrast family dynamics between non-divorced families and stepfamilies.
AB - The social relations model (SRM) is typically used to identify sources of variance in interpersonal dispositions in families. Traditionally, it uses dyadic measurements that are obtained from a round-robin design, where each family member rates each other family member. Those dyadic measurements are mostly considered to be continuous, but we, however, will discuss how the SRM can be adapted to count dyadic measurements. Such SRM for count data can be formulated in the SEM-framework by viewing it as a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), but it can also be defined in the multilevel framework. These two frameworks result in equivalent models of which the parameters can be estimated using maximum likelihood estimation or a Bayesian approach. We perform a simulation study to compare the performance of those two estimators. As an illustration, we consider intergenerational co-activity data from a block design and contrast family dynamics between non-divorced families and stepfamilies.
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U2 - 10.1027/1614-2241/a000178
DO - 10.1027/1614-2241/a000178
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85076955737
SN - 1614-1881
VL - 15
SP - 157
EP - 174
JO - Methodology
JF - Methodology
IS - 4
ER -