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SynthesisApplied psychology. Health and well-being2025

Positive changes in daily life? A meta-analysis of positive psychological ecological momentary interventions.

Samuel Tomczyk, Christina Ewert

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Applied psychology. Health and well-being, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Samuel TomczykDepartment Health and Prevention, Institute of Psychology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2846-5489
Christina EwertDepartment of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2811-0020

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Positive psychological interventions (PPI) hold promise for boosting well-being and quality of life in diverse populations, but not much is known about their efficacy as ecological momentary interventions (EMIs, e.g. via mobile applications) in daily life. This meta-analysis uses random-effects models to examine the efficacy of PPI-EMIs compared to control groups (active or passive) and exploring study region, age, gender, and risk of bias as moderators. Overall, 16 studies were included (N = 3397, 69.1% female, M

Indexed as

Ecological Momentary AssessmentPsychology, PositivePsychosocial InterventionQuality of LifeAdultFemaleHumansMaleecological momentary assessmenteHealthmobile healthpositive psychologySDG 3: Good health and well‐beingwell‐being

Identifiers

PMID39930901
PMCPMC11811679

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