Intraindividual Variability in the Development of Motor Skills in Childhood

Abstract

The effort to define and measure mood and related affective phenomena has deep roots in psychological history ( James, 1884 , 1890/1998; Wundt, 1897/ 1998 ). For much of the past century, this effort has been guided by a nomothetic approach ( Buss & Craik, 1980 ; Eysenck, 1954 ; Stern, 1900 ) that has yielded important insights into how people vary from one another in their characteristic ways of feeling (e.g., Bradburn, 1969 ; Diener & Emmons, 1984 ; Russell, 1978 ; Watson & Tellegen, 1985 ). A second tradition of mood theorizing—the idiographic approach—rooted in the important writings of Allport (1937) , Cattell (1966) , and Kluckhohn and Murray (1948) has likewise generated a wealth of scholarship on the value of studying single persons through intensive repeated observations of psychological states over time (e.g., Hooker, Nesselroade, Nesselroade, & Lerner, 1987 ; Lebo & Nesselroade, 1978 ; Wessman & Ricks, 1966 ; Zevon & Tellegen, 1982 ).

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