Adolescents’ Daily Perception of Internalizing Emotional States by Means of Smartphone-based Ecological Momentary Assessment
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This study uses ecological momentary assessment (EMA) with smartphone devices to examine community adolescents’ perceptions regarding both the intensity of and variability in their daily sadness/depression, anxiety, and somatic problems over the period of one week. Participants were 90 high-school students ( M age = 14.61, SD = 1.64; range 12–18). The sample was divided according to gender (61.1% girls), migratory status (68.5% Spanish nationals and 31.5% Latin American immigrants), and level of psychological symptoms (17% risk group). Sadness/depression, anxiety, and somatic problems were examined using a smartphone app, five times per day, semi-randomly, for seven days (35 possible moments). A high proportion of adolescents did not report feelings of sadness (80.0%) or worry (79.3%) or physical symptoms on a daily basis (84.9%). Girls and the risk group reported greater intensity levels for the three analyzed problems than did boys and the normal group, respectively ( p < .001 in all cases). Migratory status was not associated with any significant differences in the analyzed problems over the one-week period ( p > . 05 in all cases). Day-to-day fluctuations in mood during the week were statistically significant but not meaningful ( b = 0.0004, 95% CI [0.0001, 0.0008], p = .001).
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- Authors
- Kirchner, T., Magallón-Neri, E., Ortiz, M. S., Planellas, I., Forns, M., & Calderón, C.
- Affiliations
- Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Kirchner, Teresa
- Venue
- The Spanish Journal of Psychology
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2017
- Volume
- 20
- Pages
- E71-E71
- ISSN
- 1138-7416 (ISSN-L)
- 1988-2904
- OpenAlex
- W2773849487
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 2.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2018-02-05)
- Open access
- green
- repositorio.ufro.cl
- Licence
- Locations
- The Spanish Journal of Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Omeka S (Universidad de La Frontera) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- adolescents, internalizing problems, sadness, depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, ecological momentary assessment, mobile application, high school students, gender differences, migrant youth, psychological risk
- MeSH terms
- Smartphone, Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Ecological Momentary Assessment, Adolescent, Anxiety, Child, Depression, Emotions, Female, Humans, Latin America, Male, Self Concept, Sex Factors, Spain, Students, Emigrants and Immigrants, Mobile Applications
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