Rakesh Pandey- Ph.D.,
- Professor at Banaras Hindu University
Rakesh Pandey
- Ph.D.,
- Professor at Banaras Hindu University
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Introduction
Presently Professor of Psychology at Banaras Hindu University
Current institution
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November 2006 - present
November 2009 - present
Position
- Professor
Description
- Currently pursuing research in the area of emotion - health relationship, role of positive psychological resources (e.g., mindfulness, self-compassion, psychological immunity) in human health and wellness
July 2003 - October 2006
M.G. Kashi Vidyapith University
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Description
- Taught psychometrics, psychological testing, and statistics and pursued research in the area of stress - health relationship, burnout, subjective well-being
Education
March 1991 - December 1993
July 1988 - May 1990
Publications
Publications (147)
The emotion processing and regulation mechanisms by which dispositional (personality trait) mindfulness exerts its positive effects on mental health remain unclear. Here, we tested, using structural equation modeling, whether the relationship between higher dispositional mindfulness and better mental health is mediated by reduced maladaptive proces...
Startle reflex is an involuntary defensive withdrawal response to a suddenly-occurring stimulus and is influenced by subjective affective states. However, most studies have examined the effect of positive and negative affect independently rather than in relation to one another, which is important since positive and negative affect co-exist within a...
Air pollution is well-documented to negatively impact mental health, but its effects on positive mental health indicators, including quality of life (QOL) and personal and social well-being (PSWB), remain underexplored. This study examined the relationships between acute (24-hour) and brief (7-and 14-day) exposure to air pollution and QOL and PSWB,...
The twenty-one-item depression anxiety stress scale (DASS-21) is a well-validated and widely used measure for assessing depression, anxiety, and stress in both clinical and non-clinical settings. In India, existing Hindi versions of the DASS-21 have translation and transliteral equivalence-related issues and their factor structures remain unexplore...
Sleep quality, key to physical and mental health, requires regular assessment in clinical and non‐clinical settings. Despite widespread use, the dimensionality of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is debated, and its Hindi version's factor structure remains unexplored. Our study evaluates the PSQI's dimensionality among Indian adolescents a...
Background: Although the recent pandemic›s impact on adults has been extensively studied, little research has been done on its impact on children, despite the harmful effects COVID-19 has on them. We aim to understand the protective function of Indian joint families for the perceived life outcomes of children (9-12 years) in the early stages of the...
The study examined perceived transgressions and concomitant forgiveness among Indian older adults living in old-age homes and families. The thematic analysis method was employed to analyze interviews with 22 older adults. Severe loss, serious neglect, and cheating were the perceived transgressions of the older adults from old-age homes whereas day-...
Background: There is considerable evidence supporting the elevated risk of mental health problems in individuals with evening chronotype relative to those with morning or intermediate chronotypes. Recent data, however, suggest that this risk may be explained, at least partially, by poor sleep quality. Methods: This study aimed to further clarify th...
A considerable body of literature exists on dispositional mindfulness (DM), exploring various candidate mechanisms to elucidate its positive impact on mental health. The goal of this perspective article is to present a theoretical model of the interplay and collective contribution of various interrelated (but, as yet, isolated) mechanisms linking D...
This chapter discusses the intricate dynamics of authorship, addressing the challenges and conflicts inherent in the assignment of credit. Emphasising the significance of proper authorship in reporting research, the chapter explores the prevalent criteria for authorship, issues related to lead and co-authorship, and the responsibilities authors bea...
Previous researches have proposed several isolated mechanisms linking dispositional mindfulness (DM) and mental health. The present study tested a comprehensive explanatory model that could provide an integrative framework to determine the relative contributions of these isolated mechanisms to the positive effects of DM on lowering mental health pr...
Startle modulation paradigms, namely habituation and prepulse inhibition (PPI), can offer insight into the brain's early information processing mechanisms that might be impacted by regular meditation practice. Habituation refers to decreasing response to a repeatedly-presented startle stimulus, reflecting its redundancy. PPI refers to response redu...
There is increasing recognition of ‘higher preference for eveningness’ as a potential independent risk factor for poor mental health. To examine the chronotype-mental health relationship while also quantifying the potential roles of poor sleep quality, relevant personality traits, and childhood trauma, we assessed 282 young adults (18–40 years; 195...
Background: Although many negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are reported for adults, little is known about its impacts on children, especially in terms of the relative roles of joint and nuclear families. Using a qualitative design, we explored the protective roles of joint and nuclear families in shaping the life outcomes of children...
Research shows a reduced responsivity to implicit as well as explicit facial emotion recognition (emotional dampening) in prehypertensives and hypertensives. This study explored auditory and audiovisual emotion recognition in prehypertensives and hypertensives. Participants (N = 175) who were normotensives, prehypertensives, and hypertensives (n =...
Background
Elevated loneliness experiences characterise young people. While loneliness at this developmental juncture may emerge from age‐typical upheaval in social relationships, there is little data on the extent to which young people experience high and persistent levels of loneliness, and importantly, who is most vulnerable to these experiences...
Self-forgiveness (letting go of the feelings of victimization, resentment, and vengeance) is possibly shaped in its nature and extent by self-esteem and self-compassion, through various mechanisms. The latter two represent well-known affirmative self-resources with significant implications for the life outcomes in individualistic and collectivistic...
COVID-19 represents a severe, novel, and harmful disease that posed worldwide new challenges to the well-being of people and culminated in negative life outcomes. The current study explored the perceived psychological distress and consequent health outcomes caused by COVID-19. The Narrative Thematic Analysis design was employed. Eighteen participan...
The cultural context of an organisation may significantly shape the nature of transgressions and consequent forgiveness relevant to understanding the workplace outcomes. This study explored the nature of transgressions and the dynamics of forgiveness in the workplace of a heterogeneous Indian sample which have not been well addressed in previous st...
Child labourers are more likely to have experienced physical victimisation, which may increase risk for anxiety/depression, by shaping threat biases in information-processing. To target threat biases and vulnerability for anxiety/depression, we evaluated whether Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) training could be feasibly and acceptably delivered t...
Emotional dampening (blunted responses to affective stimuli or experiences) has been reported in individuals with clinical and subclinical levels of elevated blood pressure (BP). Our aim in the present study was to explore how the basic motivational systems of approach and avoidance to positively- and negatively-valenced stimuli are affected in ele...
There is growing evidence of beneficial effects of mindfulness developed through engaging in mindfulness training/practices on sensory and cognitive processing, emotion regulation and mental health. Mindfulness has also been conceptualised as a dispositional ‘trait’, i.e. the naturally-occurring ability of meditation-naïve individuals to display, i...
With the rollout of the world's largest vaccine drive for SARS-CoV-2 by the Government of India on January 16 2021, India had targeted to vaccinate its entire population by the end of 2021. Struggling with vaccine procurement and production earlier, India overcome these hurdles, but the Indian population still did not seem to be mobilizing swiftly...
Background and objectives
Young people who have experienced early-life maltreatment preferentially attend to threat and draw more threatening interpretations. In turn, these threat biases may explain elevated risk for lifelong anxiety and/or depression. We investigated whether adolescent labourers with a history of physical abuse showed threat bias...
It is supplementary material for Understanding the nature and consequences of transgressions and forgiveness in the workplace in India. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, (in press).
The cultural context of an organisation may significantly shape the nature of transgressions and consequent forgiveness relevant to understanding the workplace outcomes. This study explored the nature of transgressions and the dynamics of forgiveness in the workplace of a heterogeneous Indian sample which have not been well addressed in previous st...
The COVID-19 is exerting deleterious impacts on children. We intend to understand the protective roles of Indian joint families for the perceived life outcomes of children (9-12 years) during the early phase of the current pandemic. The qualitative study revealed six themes: perceived distress, the multiplicity of relationships, harmonious relation...
With the roll-out of worlds largest vaccine drive for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by Government of India on January 16 2021, India has targeted to vaccinate its entire population by the end of year 2021. Struggling with vaccine procurement and production earlier, India came up with these hurdles but the Indian popul...
Child labourers are at risk of poorer mental health and once rescued require urgent mental health interventions to ameliorate the long-term impact. In our review, only two published scientific studies evaluated custom-made interventions; other programmes were obtained from non-governmental organisations (NGOs), which need rigorous trial evaluation....
It is well documented that emotion regulation difficulties are linked with various forms of psychopathology including anxiety and depression but the literature is still inconclusive regarding whether emotion regulation difficulties are transdiagnostic or pathology-specific. We speculate that certain types of emotion regulation difficulties may be t...
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented stress to young people. Despite recent speculative suggestions of poorer mental health in young people in India since the start of the pandemic, there have been no systematic efforts to measure these. Here we report on the content of worries of Indian adolescents and identify groups of young people who...
The novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 that first emerged in Wuhan, China, in Nov-Dec 2019 has already impacted a significant proportion of the world population. Governments of many countries imposed quarantines and social distancing measures in 2020, many of which remain in place, to mitigate the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus causing the COVID-19...
Background: Although the three-dimensional Vedic personality model (Triguna) and self-compassion have been linked with a variety of life outcomes, little is known about their interplay in shaping goal orientations. We explored the interrelationships and interplay of the Triguna (Sattva, Rajas and Tamas) with positive and negative self-compassion in...
The basic goal of the study was to explore the nature and mechanisms of self-compassion through which it shapes perceived positive mental health outcomes of the adults. Using a qualitative research design fifty-one adults (26 males and 25 females) in the age range of 20-25 years were interviewed following a semi-structured interview protocol. The r...
Extraverts have been reported to be happier than introverts. The study explored the mechanisms behind differences in the perceived happiness of the introverts and extraverts. The verbatim transcriptions of semi-structured interviews were analyzed through the thematic analysis. Five themes were generated: dissimilar conceptualizations of happiness,...
Using a qualitative approach, we explored the protective roles of joint and nuclear families in shaping the life outcomes of children during COVID-19. Sixteen full-time mothers of children aged 9-12 years (8 each from joint and nuclear families) were interviewed and thematic analysis revealed five major themes viz., negative impacts, differences in...
Objectives: Researchers have reported close links between forgiveness and positive life outcomes for people of all age groups. The study explored the perceived transgressions and forgiveness of the elders using a qualitative research design. Design and Methods: Narrative qualitative research design was employed. The semi-structured interview was us...
The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) assesses emotion regulation among adults and adolescents, in healthy as well as clinical populations. However, its factor structure is a widely debated issue. Although earlier studies replicated the original six-factor structure, they pointed out psychometrically poor items in the DERS. The issue...
Reduced responsiveness to emotional stimuli (‘emotional dampening’) has been observed in normotensives with elevated blood pressure (BP) and hypertensives but it is not known whether this is due to aberrant responding to emotional information at the involuntary level and whether it is also associated with minimal elevations in BP in the normal rang...
Objectives
Although the prevalence and mental health consequences of childhood maltreatment among adolescents have been studied widely, there are few data addressing these issues in Asian lower middle–income countries. Here, we assessed the prevalence and types of childhood maltreatment and, for the first time, examined their association with curre...
This is the data of a qualitative study of Happiness & personality.
Self-compassion model of Neff (2003) has been developed mostly selecting the adult samples from American and Western societies that cultivate individualistic mindset. We argue that the dimensions proposed in Neff's model may not reflect self-compassionate behaviours of people having collectivistic frame of mind. This study aimed to explore and empi...
This study illuminates some life conditions, personality features and life outcomes where self-compassion may not be effective and useful.
There is a great dearth of studies that have undertaken to understand the development of self-compassion. Is there a uniform pattern in its development and which one comes first? These questions have largely been unanswered. This study aims to bridge this gap and claims to be one of the first study of its kind.
The study aimed to assess the extent to which self-compassionate experiences are available to the adults. It also explored the gender differences in the relative awareness of one of the three dimensions.
The study aimed to understand individual differences in positive mental health outcomes in terms of the three dimensions of self-compassion.
The study aims to explicate the why behind the small positive correlations among negative self-compassion, hedonic and eudaimonic well-being.
The study attempted to understand gender differences in the relative dominance of the three dimensions of self-compassion. using an explanatory research design.
Background
Tendencies to attend to threatening cues in the environment and to interpret ambiguous situations with negative/hostile intent maintain and may even precipitate internalizing and externalizing problems in young people with a history of maltreatment. Challenging maladaptive information-processing styles using cognitive bias modification (...
Forgiveness is a desirable human virtue that facilitates the abandonment of resentment and lowers negative cognitions, feelings and behaviours. These strengths of forgiveness help individuals to achieve a positive frame of mind, positive emotions and behaviours that may, in turn, have spiralling effects on a variety of positive life outcomes extend...
Self-compassion, borrowed from Buddhist philosophy and culture and also enshrined in Vedic and Jain philosophy in India, refers to a set of positive and strengthening self-attitudes that are activated in the face of adversity, pain, failures and inadequacies of life (Neff, 2003b, 2003a; Pommier, Neff, & Tóth-Király, 2019). Neff (2003b) has proposed...
The present study explored the basic nature and spiralling dynamics of self-compassion in a diverse sample of adults. Twenty-nine males and 21 females with different educational, social, cultural and occupational backgrounds were involved in the study who achieved scores above 75th percentile on self-compassion scale (Neff, 2003) among 250 particip...
Self-forgiveness represents an ability to become familiar with one’s intrinsic worth that comprises restoration of self-respect. Self-forgiveness facilitates the pouring out one’s anger on the one hand and cultivates positive emotions, compassion, kindness and love toward oneself on the other. A multitude of theoretical models have been developed t...
The scientific study of forgiveness has recent origin with a short history of thirty years. However, the recent past has witnessed a sudden upsurge in the study of forgiveness due to its recognition as a desirable human virtue and a plethora of positive life outcomes linked with it. The present research aims to understand the current status in the...
Sri Ramcharit Manas and its teachings have been been exerting its great impacts on the live of crores of people across the globe. The presents qualitative study aims to explore the nature of forgiveness as depicted in Sri Ramcharit Manas, one of the holiest Hindu scripture. Twenty people who have adopted full saintly life and 50 practitioner of thi...
Forgiveness is an adorable human virtue that is closely linked with many positive life outcomes of people. Self-forgiveness has been conceived as an ability to recognize one’s intrinsic worth that involves a restoration of self-respect. Self-forgiveness represents a readiness to throw away resentment and cultivate compassion, kindness and love towa...
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in the scientific study of positive psychological constructs to underscore the nature and dynamics in organizations that has led to establishing a new paradigm of positive organizational behaviour. This paradigm believes in human strengths with new hope to enhance productivity, satisfaction and overall develop...
Gender has been a popular construct in the academic deliberations of behavioural and Social Scinces. Even medical and allied sciences, biogical scinces and other natural sciences are colsely related with the study of gender phenomenon. This conceputual review aims to explicate the contrual of gender in terms of perspectives of gender. Its major goa...
Objectives:
Little is known about rates of childhood maltreatment in low-income countries, particularly among marginalised sectors of society. Economic hardships mean that in such countries, many children and young people are exploited in the labour force and/or are trafficked, placing them at greater risk for being exposed to other forms of maltr...
Background and objectives:
Anxiety in adolescence is characterised by disturbances in attentional processes and the overgeneralisation of fear, however, little is known about the combined and reciprocal effects of and between these factors on youth anxiety. The present study investigated whether attention (attention allocation and control) and fea...
Religion and spirituality play a significant role as coping resources under stressful circumstances. Nursing professionals confront with a variety of stressors repeatedly and are found to employ religious/spiritual coping techniques in managing the negative impact of work stress. The present review explores different religious and spiritual coping...
The present study aimed to examine the effect of task load on visual search sustained attention task performance. Cue works as a signal and may facilitate or deteriorate the performance. These effects depend on cue validity and its temporal properties. Present study used cue validity to observe the effects of cue on participant’s performance. Ninet...
Psychological factors are known to play an important part in the origin of many medical conditions including hypertension. Recent studies have reported elevated blood pressure (even in the normal range of variation) to be associated with a reduced responsiveness to emotions or 'emotional dampening'. Our aim was to assess emotional dampening in indi...
This study examined the effect of sense modality (auditory/visual) on emotional dampening (reduced responsiveness to emotions with elevation in blood pressure). Fifty-six normotensive participants were assessed on tasks requiring labelling and matching of emotions in faces and voices. Based on median split of systolic and diastolic blood pressures...
Most studies though report that emotion regulation (ER) mediates the relationship of mindfulness with subjective well-being (SWB), there is also an unexamined conjecture that ER skills cultivate mindfulness which consequently enhances SWB. Present study attempts to empirically tests which of the said two models better explains the mindfulness-well-...
The present study attempts to validate and extend the earlier findings linking blood pressure (BP) and reduced emotion recognition ability i.e., emotional dampening (ED). Twenty normotensive participants had their BP readings taken via an automated BP monitor and were subsequently assessed on a task of Facial Emotion Recognition. Bivariate linear c...
Emotional dampening (reduced emotional responsiveness) in response to blood pressure (BP) elevation (in normotensive range) has been noted in explicit processing of visual emotional stimuli. However, it has yet to be explored whether such emotional dampening (ED) occurs in implicit processing of emotions (across diff erent sense modalities) and ext...
Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ: Baer, Smith, Hopkins, Krietemeyer & Toney, 2006) though is a widely used measure for assessing the trait mindfulness, its five factor structure has been questioned and a four factor model (without observe dimension) has been advocated in several studies. The validity of the initially proposed five factor...
The Suicide Cognitions Scale (SCS) though has been proposed to consist two-factors, some studies have either reported a three-factor solution or a two-factor solution with different patterns of loadings. Taking this inconsistency in the factor structure into account, the present study attempts to validate the factor structure of the SCS using the H...
The researchers have tried to examine the nature of hemispheric asymmetry in
depression, but did not reach consensus. It is speculated that failure to be unanimously
agreed upon any view could be due to several reasons. Thus, with this background, the
present study aims at exploring the nature of hemispheric asymmetry in depression while
examining...
Mindfulness has occupied a central position in the contemporary
scientific psychology and has been most widely studied in relation (0
alleviation of mental distress and promoting health and well-being. However,
there exists wide variation in its conceptualization and connotations. Further,
despite its well documented beneficial health effects, the...
The link between mindfulness and better emotion regulation (ER) has been well documented, but the mechanism through which it improves ER is still unclear. It is likely that the emotion regulatory effects of mindfulness might be occurring indirectly through other affective aspects (e.g., range & differentiation of emotional experiences). The said po...
Suicide is not an outcome of a single factor rather it results from an interplay of host of bio-psycho-social factors. However, it has been noted that mere presence of one or more suicidalrisk factors may not always lead to suicide. This paper theorizes that certain psychological factors may work like adaptogens and may counter the risk of suicide...
The present research examines the relationship of emotional processing deficit with mental health problems
and attempt to explore the potential mediating role of negative affect in the relationship. It was hypothesized
that emotional processing deficit may result in greater negative emotional experiences which in turn may lead
poor mental health. T...
The inter-relationships of alexithymia, Eysenckian personality dimensions, and perceived autonomic arousal were examined (N = 200). Alexithymia correlated positively with neuroticism and perceived autonomic arousal. Extraversion correlated negatively with alexithymia, and only sociability contributed to this negative relationship. Tendency to focus...
Objective. The primary objective was to examine emotional responsiveness in alexithymia.
Design. A quasi-experimental design was followed with the alexithymia variable being manipulated by subject stratification based on Toronto Alexithymia Scale- 20-H.
Method. Alexithymics (N=12) and non-alexithymics (N=12) were asked to match, label and verbally...
It is generally agreed that schizophrenia patients show a markedly reduced ability to perceive and express facial emotions. Previous studies have shown, however, that such deficits are emotion-specific in schizophrenia and not generalized. Three kinds of studies were examined: decoding studies dealing with schizophrenia patients' ability to perceiv...
Focal brain-damaged patients (left hemisphere damage, right hemisphere damage) and hospitalized general medical patients were asked to sort test photographs into target expressions of four facial emotions, happy, sad, fear and anger. In a second task, patients were asked to match neutral photographs with these target emotion expressions in a forced...
Sustained attention, often referred to as vigilance, is the ability to maintain goal-directed behavior for extended periods of time and respond to intermittent targets in the environment. With greater time-on-task the ability to detect targets decrease and reaction time increases across time periods-a phenomenon termed as vigilance decrement. Sever...
Depression has often been linked with anomalous pattern of hemispheric asymmetry and recent studies provide support that neuro-behavioural measures of hemispheric asymmetry may potentially be used as a marker of depression. With this background the present study examines the nature of hemispheric asymmetry in depres-sion using dichotic listening te...
The dimensionality of the construct of affect intensity is still a debated issue and most of the studies dealing with this debate have used the Affect Intensity Measure (AIM; Larsen & Diener, 1987) although this measure has been criticized on various psychometric grounds. We speculate that the inconsistency regarding the dimensionality of affect in...
A consensus is emerging among the researchers that mindfulness is associated with better physical health and psychological well-being. The present study attempts to explore the possible role of positive and negative affectivity in explaining the relationship between mindfulness and health. One hundred undergraduate and post-graduate tudents (52 mal...
Researches indicate that culturally induced differences in self-perception have significant influence
on an individual’s general attitude and behaviour including his/her evaluation of subjective happiness
and self-worth. The individualistic cultures focus more on independence, self-sufficiency, uniqueness,
and personal success leading to an indepen...
Alexithymia, characterized by difficulty in identifying and describing feelings and a deficit in the cognitive modulation of emotions, has been linked with health related problems. Indirect empirical evidences suggest the possibility that alexithymia may potentially also relate with emotion regulation difficulties. However, the exact nature of the...
The successful ageing is a major challenge to health care professionals as the elderly population over the globe is at high risk for developing a variety of physical and mental health problems. With the development of medical sciences and improving living conditions, the proportion of elderly population is increasing day by day and India is not an...
There is a general agreement among researchers that mindful meditation training enhances functional status, physical and psychological well-being. Studies on mindfulness and well-being relationship seem to converge on the fact that mindfulness is associated with different components of subjective well-being (SWB). The mindfulness-well-being relatio...
Hemisphericity or individual difference in the preference to use the left or the right hemispheric mode of information processing has been associated with various emotion-related differences. For example, the right hemisphericity has been linked with inhibition of emotional expression, feeling of tension, greater impulsivity etc. These observations...
The present study hypothesizes that the observed inconsistency in findings may be because of the influence of comorbid presence of anxiety with depression and/or variations in the task/information processing requirement of the measures of hemispheric asymmetry. In view of this the present study examines the role of co-occurring anxiety and task req...
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Questions (11)
Esteemed RG members
For a collaborative research project I wish to use SynAmps 2 64 channel EEG amplifier as the same device is proposed to be used at UK site of the project. For this amplifier the Compumedics suggest Curry Scan 7 neuroimaging suite and for ERP Stim2. My queries are:
1. Is the said EEG system better of comparable to Biosemi Active-2 system?
2. If I prefer to use SynAmps (to have parity in the equipment with other collborators) then can I use some open source /free software for data acquisition and analysis or I will have to use their proposed software?
3. There are different licenses for Curry 7. Can EEG and ERP studies be performed by the "acquisition and processing" license?
4. What are the advantages of going for the license of "Basic, Advanced source and image analysis"?
5.. For ERP studies they suggest Stim2 (stimulus presentation software). Can I use SuperLab or DirectRT or e-prime for the same?
I am not well versed with EEG systems and EEG studies and thus a more detailed suggestion with helpful links will be of much help to me.
With best regards
From various published research, I came to know that in cross-temporal meta analysis various studies conducted (during a specified time period) on a given population using a given measure are analyzed for ascertaining change in any phenomenon or variable over time. The mean score on the given measure of various studies are correlated with the time period of the study and the obtained correlation suggest the magnitude and direction of change in the given variable over a long period of time. I also came to know that while computing correlation between year of study and the mean score of the give variable, weighting is also done in a manner that methodologically more strong studies get higher weight. Further, some effect size measures (e.g. w) are also computed.
However, I am not having the clear idea of the computational steps involved in doing cross-temporal meta analysis as well as the methodological variants of it. The Google search yielded research papers that have used the said method and thus the computational details were presented with the assumption that readers are aware of the give methodology.
I would be much obliged if the esteemed members who have used this method or having some idea of it may extend some help in understanding this method. Any article or a ink to it dealing with the computational steps of the said method would be highly appreciated.
May I request to also share information about some software or SPSS macro/scripts/custom dialog for such analysis.
With warm regards
Rakesh Pandey
