Towards understanding the relationship between Communion and Agency at the level of the individual

Across two studies, we evaluated the accuracy of five models in predicting the relationship between Agency and Communion at the level of the individual rather than at the level of the sample. Unlike previous research that focused on group-level relations of these dimensions, our analysis investigated whether individual data aligns with the predictions of the five models translated to the individual level. To assess performance, we coded the correspondence between each participant's response pattern and the patterns predicted by the models. Despite growing consensus on the necessity of predictions in psychological research, the question of how to approach prediction remains largely unresolved. Our research explores this question and reveals that at least two out of five models previously supported failed to accurately represent the data. We believe this conclusion is provocative and advances the understanding of the relationship between Agency and Communion by clarifying the models' space.