Multilevel Modeling of Two Cyclical Processes: Extending Differential Structural Equation Modeling to Nonlinear Coupled Systems.

摘要: The authors present a dynamical multilevel model that captures changes over time in the bidirectional, potentially asymmetric influence of 2 cyclical processes. S. M. Boker and J. Graham's (1998) differential structural equation modeling approach was expanded to case nonlinear coupled oscillator is common bimanual coordination studies which participants swing hand-held pendulums but also applicable social systems general. authors' decomposed fluctuations into competitive component, unique each individual variable, cooperative component captured bidirectional influence. generated an index symmetry/asymmetry Together, models are useful quantitative tools for study interacting, changing