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Paleari, F. G., & Fincham, F. D.

The reciprocal relationship between husbands and wives’ marital forgivingness: A two-wave cross-lagged latent difference score analysis of ten-year data

Cross-lagged latent difference score (LDS) models complement cross-lagged regression models, but are better suited to detecting differences in intrapersonal change and examining the relation between changes in different variables across time. In this article we present cross-lagged LDS models as a method for conceptualizing and measuring change in two-wave dyadic data. The statistical analysis of these models is illustrated using data on marital forgivingness collected from 61 couples at two time points separated by a 10-year interval. The results support the view that cross-lagged LDS models can be an appropriate means to analyze within-person change over two occasions in the context of nonindependent couple data. This is true even when sample size prohibits the estimation of cross-lagged LDS models through common factors using multiple indicators. Conditions that increase model reliability in the absence of multiple indicators are described.

Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 2015, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 287-308, DOI: 10.4473/TPM22.2.8

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