111 Idiographic personality networks 5 Figure 1 Idiographic networks of the 60-day diary data from two participants. Note. Nodes reflect the six measured diary variables. HAPPY = happiness. WORRY = worrying about the future. NERV. = nervousness. ACT_R = acts that lead to regret. ACT_W = acts without thinking. RESTL = restlessness. Edges reflect significant associations within that individual over time. Blue edges are positive partial correlations. Red edges are negative partial correlations. Thicker edges reflect a higher partial correlation coefficient, relative to that participant. Nonsignificant edges are pruned. 3.4 Between-person differences in networks After estimating idiographic networks for all 26 participants, we evaluated (dis)similarities between them. Figure 2 presents these (dis)similarities in one summarizing network. The interpretation of the edges here is different from Figure 1. Whereas edges in each of the idiographic networks (Figure 1) reflect significant partial correlation coefficients, the edges in Figure 2 reflect the count of significant edges across each of the idiographic networks. A small number of thick edges would reflect between-person homogeneity and the presence of many thin edges indicates high degree of between-person heterogeneity. Some edges were common amongst individuals. For example, 20 participants (77 %) had a significant positive association between doing things that were later regretted and doing things without thinking. Other edges were less common between individuals, for example, nervousness was positively associated with restlessness (n = 12, 46 %) and worrying about the future (n = 10; 38 %). Moreover, the many thin edges in Figure 2 reflect a high degree of between-person heterogeneity in our sample. This was also reflected in the direction of bivariate associations in the different idiographic networks (negative vs. positive). For instance, there were three participants who, on average, worried more about their future on days when they reported higher levels of acting without thinking (three blue edges between the nodes in Figure 2), but there was also one participant who tended to report less
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