Four ontological challenges to constructs in psychology

Wang, N., Grüning, D. J., van der Burght, C. L., Fried, E. I., Steele, J., Columbus, S., & Chuan-Peng, H. (2024). Four ontological challenges to constructs in psychology. PsyArXiv Preprints. doi:10.31234/osf.io/hyfbn.
All areas of psychology deal with constructs in one way or another. The use of psychological constructs presents four distinct challenges that are central to address: describing, defining, deploying, and distinguishing constructs. Refining a psychological construct refers to an iterative process of dealing with these challenges
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2024

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