ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2024
Assessing and accounting for measurement in intensive longitudinal studies: current practices, considerations, and avenues for improvement.
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- Within-person association between affect and physical activity related to depressive symptomatology: A systematic review and methodological reflections.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Pooled it
- Improving the comparability of momentary affect assessments and accounting for item-specific effects in within-person affect dynamics.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Mapping methods and tools for measuring patient experience in oncology settings: a scoping review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics.Behavior research methods · 2026Review
- The importance of examining measurement properties in ecological momentary assessment research: An illustrative example in suicide research.Psychological assessment · 2025Article
- A Continuous-Time Dynamic Factor Model for Intensive Longitudinal Data Arising from Mobile Health Studies.Psychometrika · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposeIntensive longitudinal studies, in which participants complete questionnaires multiple times a day over an extended period, are increasingly popular in the social sciences in general and quality-of-life research in particular. The intensive longitudinal methods allow for studying the dynamics of constructs (e.g., how much patient-reported outcomes vary across time). These methods promise higher ecological validity and lower recall bias than traditional methods that question participants only once, since the high frequency means that participants complete questionnaires in their everyday lives and do not have to retrospectively report about a large time interval. However, to ensure the validity of the results obtained from analyzing the intensive longitudinal data (ILD), greater awareness and understanding of appropriate measurement practices are needed.
methodWe surveyed 42 researchers experienced with ILD regarding their measurement practices and reasons for suboptimal practices.
resultsResults showed that researchers typically do not use measures validated specifically for ILD. Participants assessing the psychometric properties and invariance of measures in their current studies was even less common, as was accounting for these properties when analyzing dynamics. This was mainly because participants did not have the necessary knowledge to conduct these assessments or were unaware of their importance for drawing valid inferences. Open science practices, in contrast, appear reasonably well ingrained in ILD studies.
conclusionMeasurement practices in ILD still need improvement in some key areas; we provide recommendations in order to create a solid foundation for measuring and analyzing psychological constructs.
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