The Role of Ambulatory Assessment in Psychological Science
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We describe the current use and future promise of an innovative methodology, ambulatory assessment, that can be used to investigate psychological, emotional, behavioral, and biological processes of individuals in their daily lives. The term “ambulatory assessment” encompasses a wide range of methods used to study people in their natural environment, including momentary self-report, observational, and physiological methods. We emphasize applications of ambulatory assessment that integrate two or more of these methods, discuss the smartphone as a hub or access point for ambulatory assessment, and discuss future applications of ambulatory-assessment methodology to the science of psychology. We pay particular attention to the development and application of wireless body area networks that can be implemented with smartphones and wireless physiological monitoring devices, and we close by discussing future applications of this approach to matters relevant to psychological science.
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The collection of daily self-reported stress, EA, and PF at specified times (ecological momentary assessment) increased ecological validity and minimized biases such as recall bias.
“Lastly, the collection of daily self-reported stress, EA, and PF at specified times (i.e., ecological momentary assessment) increased ecological validity and minimized biases such as recall bias which may impact other types of self-report measures [50].”
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- Authors
- Trull, T. J., & Ebner-Priemer, U.
- Affiliations
- University of Missouri (US)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- ORCID
- Trull, Timothy J.
- Venue
- Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2014-12
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 466-470
- ISSN
- 0963-7214 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8721
- PMC
- PMC4269226
- OpenAlex
- W2094181737
- Cited by
- 284
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 10.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Current Directions in Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (P60AA011998, R21AA022099)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Keywords
- ambulatory assessment, naturalistic observation, physiological monitoring, smartphones, wireless body area networks, wireless physiological monitoring, daily behavior, ecological momentary assessment
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