A Comparison of Three Approaches for Evaluating Autoregressive and Cross Lagged Effects

Researchers in the social and behavioural sciences often ask questions regarding the time-linked associations between two or more constructs at multiple assessments across time. Although their questions typically involve an interest in making within-subject inferences, the most commonly used analytic approach does not disaggregate between-from within-subject variations, resulting in a mismatch between question and method. In this paper, we compare and