Background Mobile ecological momentary assessment (mEMA) permits real-time capture of
self-reported participant behaviors and perceptual experiences. Reporting of mEMA …

Experience sampling methodology and daily diary (ESM/DD) research elicits repeated
reports of immediate or very recent experiences from the same sample of people for several …

Interest theory adopts a person-in-context perspective. In this view, a momentary experience
of interest is shaped by environmental circumstances and stable personal preferences …

Experience sampling or ecological momentary assessment offers unique insights into how
people think, feel, and behave in their natural environments. Because the method is able to …

Background Mood disorders are common and associated with significant morbidity and
mortality. Better tools are needed for their diagnosis and treatment. Deeper phenotypic …

Background: Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a useful method to tap the
dynamics of psychological and behavioral phenomena in real-world contexts. However, the …

A few decades ago, the literature on stress and adjustment was dominated by work that
focused on the effect of major life events on health and psychological functioning. This made …

Capturing naturalistic human experience is a fundamental challenge for researchers in
psychology and related fields. Fortunately, as demonstrated by the broad scope of this …

We have designed a flexible ecological momentary assessment/intervention smartphone
(EMA/EMI)“app”. We examine the utility of this app for collecting real-time data, and …

Latent state–trait (LST) analysis is frequently applied in psychological research to determine
the degree to which observed scores reflect stable person-specific effects, effects of …