Comparative personality research: methodological approaches

Comparative Personality Research: Methodological Approaches

In the broadest sense, personality refers to stable inter-individual variability in behavioural organisation within a particular population. Researching personality in human as well as nonhuman species provides unique possibilities for comparisons across species with different phylogenies, ecologies and social systems. It also allows insights into mechanisms and processes of the evolution of po...

Three Methodological Core Issues of Comparative Personality Research

Comparative personality research in human and nonhuman species advances many areas of empirical and theoretical research. The methodological foundations underlying these attempts to explain personality, however, remain an unpopular and often ignored topic. The target paper and this rejoinder explore three methodological core issues in the philosophy of science for comparative personality resear...

Editorial: Methodological Approaches for Quantitative Nursing Research

A comparative study of methodological approaches to reviewing literature

s and look at what it was talking about. 4.2.2 Nature of the topic A second factor that affected the way project teams went about their reviews was their views on the nature of the topic. In particular, what aspects of the Academy-identified topics the teams themselves thought were worth exploring and in what ways . The Reflective practices review, for example, sought to adopt an approach that ...

Methodological approaches in MOOC research: Retracing the myth of Proteus

This paper explores the methodological approaches most commonly adopted in the scholarly literature on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), published during the period January 2008 May 2014. In order to identify trends, gaps and criticalities related to the methodological approaches of this emerging field of research, we analyzed 60 papers selected across four relevant scientific databases plus...