%0 Journal Article
%T Putting the ¡°Person¡± in the Center:  Review and Synthesis of Person
%A Andrew T. Jebb
%A Louis Tay
%A Sang Eun Woo
%A Scott Parrigon
%J Organizational Research Methods
%@ 1552-7425
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1094428117752467
%X This article provides a review and synthesis of person-centered analytic (i.e., clustering) methods in organizational psychology with the aim of (a) placing them into an organizing framework to facilitate analysis and interpretation and (b) constructing a set of practical recommendations to guide future person-centered research. To do so, we first clarify the terminological and conceptual issues that still cloud person-centered approaches. Next, we organize the diverse kinds of person-centered analyses into two major statistical approaches, algorithmic and latent-variable approaches. We then present a literature review that quantifies how these two approaches have been used within our field, identifying trends over time and typical study characteristics. Out of this review, we construct a unifying taxonomy of the five ways in which clusters are differentiated: (1) construct-based patterns, (2) response-style patterns, (3) predictive relations, (4) growth trajectories, and (5) measurement models. We also provide a set of practical guidelines for researchers and highlight a few remaining questions and/or areas in which future work is needed for further advancing person-centered methodologies
%K profile analysis
%K cluster analysis
%K latent class analysis
%K latent class growth models
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1094428117752467