Multilevel Modeling: Overview and Applications to Research in Counseling Psychology

Multilevel modeling (MLM) is rapidly becoming the standard method of analyzing nested data, for example, data from students within multiple schools, data on multiple clients seen by a smaller number of therapists, and even longitudinal data. Although MLM analyses are likely to increase in frequency...

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Published in:Journal of counseling psychology 2011-04, Vol.58 (2), p.257-271
Main Author: Kahn, Jeffrey H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Academic journals
Analysis of Variance
Behavioral Research - methods
Behavioral Research - statistics & numerical data
Biological and medical sciences
Counseling
Counseling Psychology
Counselling psychology
Data Analysis
Educational Research
Experimentation
Graduate Students
Human
Humans
Illinois
Learning
Linear Regression
Longitudinal Studies
Mathematical Concepts
Mathematical models
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Models, Statistical
Multilevel Analysis - methods
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychotherapies. Psychological and clinical counseling
Psychotherapy
Regression (Statistics)
Simulation
Statistical Analysis
Statistical methods
Statistics
Students - psychology
Students - statistics & numerical data
Therapists
Treatments
Tutorials
Universities
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Summary:Multilevel modeling (MLM) is rapidly becoming the standard method of analyzing nested data, for example, data from students within multiple schools, data on multiple clients seen by a smaller number of therapists, and even longitudinal data. Although MLM analyses are likely to increase in frequency in counseling psychology research, many readers of counseling psychology journals have had only limited exposure to MLM concepts. This paper provides an overview of MLM that blends mathematical concepts with examples drawn from counseling psychology. This tutorial is intended to be a first step in learning about MLM; readers are referred to other sources for more advanced explorations of MLM. In addition to being a tutorial for understanding and perhaps even conducting MLM analyses, this paper reviews recent research in counseling psychology that has adopted a multilevel framework, and it provides ideas for MLM approaches to future research in counseling psychology.
ISSN:0022-0167
1939-2168
DOI:10.1037/a0022680