Composites can be casual too

Authors
Publication date 2016
Journal European Journal of Personality
Volume | Issue number 30 | 4
Pages (from-to) 307-308
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
Abstract Mõttus gives the impression that composites, as well as other models in which traits are a result rather than a cause of their indicators, require “emergent properties” to have causal power. We argue that this is not necessary; composites can be considered causally relevant by themselves when they mediate the relation between their constituents and the outcome variable.
Document type Comment/Letter to the editor
Note Commentary to: R. Mõttus (2016). Towards more rigorous personality trait-outcome research. In: European Journal of Personality, Vol. 30, iss. 4, July/August 2016, pp. 292-303
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2060
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