Trial reportPsychological assessment2019
A comparison of signal- and event-contingent ambulatory assessment of interpersonal behavior and affect in social situations.
Trial report in Psychological assessment, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Ecological Momentary Assessment: A Meta-Analysis on Designs, Samples, and Compliance Across Research Fields.Assessment · 2023Pooled it
- Design decisions and data completeness for experience sampling methods used in psychosis: systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- The Experience Sampling Method in Monitoring Social Interactions Among Children and Adolescents in School: A Systematic Literature Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Is Increased Video Game Participation Associated With Reduced Sense of Loneliness? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Enhancing group lifestyle intervention for depression with ecological momentary assessment: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Using Mobile Ecological Momentary Assessment to Understand Consumption and Context Around Online Food Delivery Use: Pilot Feasibility and Acceptability Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Trial
- Sampling methodology and observed data patterns in ecological momentary assessment: A study of nonsuicidal self-injury among high-risk young adults.Psychological assessment · 2026Article
- Effects of Ecological Momentary Assessment Prompting Schedule on Affect Measurement Variability and Associations With Next-Day Health Behaviors.Assessment · 2026Article
- Habit degradation strategies promote faster early reductions in unhealthy snacking habit strength in intensive longitudinal randomised controlled trial.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Making trauma ecological momentary assessment studies FAIR: review of design considerations and data procedures.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Review
- Examining Caregiver Practices During Adolescent Outpatient Alcohol Use and Co-Occurring Mental Health Treatment: Protocol for a Dyadic Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Feasibility of ecological momentary assessment in measuring physical activity and sedentary behaviour in shift and non-shift workers.Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors · 2024Article
- Routineness of Social Interactions Is Associated With Higher Affective Well-Being in Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Students' motivational trajectories in vocational education: Effects of a self-regulated learning environment.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Increased Duration and Intensity of Physical Activity Are Associated With Increased Pain in Individuals With Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2024Observational
- Mapping Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Everyday Life.Affective science · 2023Article
- Evaluation of Pressing Issues in Ecological Momentary Assessment.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2023Review
- Psychometric evaluation of a Visual Interpersonal Analog Scale.Psychological assessment · 2023Article
- Continuous-Time Modeling of the Bidirectional Relationship Between Incidental Affect and Physical Activity.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022Article
- Understanding the Development of Self-Regulated Learning: An Intervention Study to Promote Self-Regulated Learning in Vocational Schools.Vocations and learning · 2022Article
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Abstract
Ambulatory assessment (e.g., ecological momentary assessment) is now widely used in psychological research, yet key design decisions remain largely informed by methodological lore as opposed to systematic inquiry. The present study experimentally tested whether signal- (e.g., random prompt) and event- (e.g., complete a survey every time a target event occurs) contingent recording procedures of interpersonal behavior and affect in social situations yield equivalent quality and quantity of data. Participants (N = 286) completed baseline questionnaires, underwent cluster randomization to either a signal- or event-contingent condition, and then completed 1 week of ambulatory assessment, during which they answered questions about their social behavior and affect tied to their social interactions. Conditions were compared on response frequency, means and variances of interpersonal behavior and affect, correlations between interpersonal behavior and affect within-subject, and associations between momentary behavior and affect and baseline variables (e.g., Big Five traits). Results indicated that signal- and event-contingent recording techniques provided equivalent data quality, suggesting that researchers can use the 2 methodologies interchangeably to draw conclusions about means, variances, and associations when examining social interactions. However, results also showed that event-contingent recording returned, on average, a higher number of reported social interactions per individual, and this was true for most time periods of the day. Thus, event-contingent recording may hold advantages for studying frequency and timing of social interactions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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