Experience Sampling

As you start planning your study, you’ll want to think about your participants, and whether Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment is right for them. Here are a few characteristics you want (and don’t want) in experience sampling studies. Strong language skills Most ESM questions are text-based. You want your participant to be able to read and […]

Experience sampling (or EMA) enables a more three-dimensional, life-like picture of the relationship between virtue and flourishing. Over the past several years a number of “virtues” have been positively related to a flourishing life—or, that is, to a deeply fulfilling, well-lived life of health and growth, physical and psychological. This connection shouldn’t be surprising given

Imagine pulling down a white box from a metal shelf in an evidence room housing hundreds of other boxes just like it. For years, the case that the box contained evidence for was left unsolved, but the advent of a new technological advancement might, finally, enable it to be solved. This was the case for

Tim Steenbergh recently attended the Conference for the Society for Ambulatory Assessment at Penn State University. Here are his highlights from this exciting event. Every other year, a group of experts on mobile assessment and intervention get together to talk about the latest developments in the field at the Conference for the Society for Ambulatory

When starting an experience sampling study, it is important to consider the different types of variables you can study. And how data should be gathered. This blog addresses these two issues, and hopefully can help as you plan studies for the future. This blog was adapted from the chapter, “Getting Started: Launching a Study in

For experience sampling, you might ask questions a number of different ways. However, we might not know that certain types of questions have titles, and that you can ask certain questions in these ways. Further, some are helpful for asking questions in, and for, different situations. Let’s check them out: 1. Signal Contingent/ Variable time-based: