National Institute for Health and Care Research

Reporting Standards for Psychological Network Analyses in Cross-Sectional Data

Burger et al. (2023) provide reporting guidelines to improve the transparency, reproducibility, and interpretation of psychological network analyses.

The authors argue that the rapid growth of psychological network analysis has created a need for clear reporting standards to ensure methodological rigour and facilitate scientific evaluation. They outline recommendations for reporting study design, variable selection, network estimation procedures, accuracy and stability analyses, and the interpretation of network results. The paper also highlights the importance of transparency in analytical decisions to reduce researcher degrees of freedom and improve reproducibility. Overall, the guidelines provide a practical framework for conducting and reporting high-quality network analysis research.

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