New directions for the study of within-individual variability in development: the power of "N = 1".
This article provides an introduction to the idiographic approach ("N = 1" research) in developmental psychology and an overview of methodological and statistical techniques employed to address the study of within-individual variability in development. Through a popularization of the idiographic approach and associated statistical techniques, but also through technical advances in the apparatus used to produce single-case intensive longitudinal data, the "power" of "N = 1" is becoming increasingly tangible and may challenge, or supplement, established paradigms in nomothetic (group-level) developmental psychology.
Department of Psychology, Pace University, New York, USA; Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, USA.
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D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D066233:Psychology, Developmental / Q000379:methods*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*