What are the unique advantages of the experience sampling method? Learn more in this video based on Shiffman, Stone, & Hufford’s Ecological Momentary Assessment. Shiffman, S., Stone, A. A., & Hufford, M. R. (2008). Ecological momentary assessment. Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol., 4, 1-32.
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Time flies by when you’re having fun! But what about when you are sorting through endless paperwork? Or doing the dishes? How does time pass when you’re not having fun? In this experience sampling study, researchers investigated how our awareness of the passage of time is related to how we judge time durations. Passage of
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Are you stressed at work? Do you think that negative work events make your stress worse? You might be right! In this EMA study, researchers at the University of Bamberg and the University of Erlangen in Germany examined the effect of negative work events (NWEs) on physiological and psychological distress responses. Eighty-three German clinical staff
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How do adolescents cope? Do daily stressors affect their mood? And what is the relationship between daily problems, coping, and mood states for adolescents? To answer of these questions, researchers in Ireland turned to an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) phone app. They wanted to see how well a mobile phone app could collect real-life data
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What factors influence overeating in overweight or obese individuals? In this study, researchers from the University of Tasmania used mobile based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine what external and internal cues promote food intake. Over a period of two weeks, 51 overweight to obese adults answered 1 to 9 different prompts per day regarding
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Synopsis of Ellen Hamaker’s chapter “Why Researchers Should Think ‘Within-Person’: A paradigmatic rationale” in Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life For many years, psychological research analyzed large samples of people in order to describe the aggregate whole. The only problem is that what is true about the aggregate is often not applicable to