How are you? Feasibility of ecological momentary assessment of emotion processing in Swedish adolescents
(2023) PSPR14 20222Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- Mental health disorders are common in adolescence, and measures of mental health have typically relied on retrospective self-reports that are influenced by measurement errors, such as recall bias. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a relatively new range of methods that assesses experiences as they occur in daily life. EMA enables reliable and ecologically valid measurement of emotions, thoughts, behaviors and context as it operates very close to when and where the experience actually occurs. However, it is unclear whether EMA is a feasible method to measure emotion processing in Swedish adolescents. In this thesis, we therefore examined the feasibility of an EMA measurement battery in adolescents. Feasibility was operationalized as... (More)
- Mental health disorders are common in adolescence, and measures of mental health have typically relied on retrospective self-reports that are influenced by measurement errors, such as recall bias. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a relatively new range of methods that assesses experiences as they occur in daily life. EMA enables reliable and ecologically valid measurement of emotions, thoughts, behaviors and context as it operates very close to when and where the experience actually occurs. However, it is unclear whether EMA is a feasible method to measure emotion processing in Swedish adolescents. In this thesis, we therefore examined the feasibility of an EMA measurement battery in adolescents. Feasibility was operationalized as compliance of reporting on the EMA questionnaires and acceptability as how the participants experienced the battery and participation in the study. Fifteen (N = 15) Swedish adolescents were recruited and consented to complete EMA questionnaires on emotion processing four times per day for 14 days. We evaluated compliance, experience of participating and completion of the study. Out of 24,780 items in total, the participants reported on 19,663 items (79.4%). All participants completed the study, and understandability of items and the project was overall high. Participants were less likely to respond to the EMA questionnaires on days off. In sum, findings indicate that EMA of emotion processing is a feasible and acceptable method in Swedish adolescents. With minor modifications of the timing of the questionnaires, the feasibility and compliance can be further improved. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Psykiatriska tillstånd och psykiska besvär är vanligt förekommande hos ungdomar och vid bedömning av psykisk ohälsa har företrädesvis retrospektiv självskattning använts, som innehåller mätfel så som recall bias. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) är en relativt ny samling metoder som mäter människors upplevelser så som de inträffar i vardagen. EMA möjliggör reliabla och ekologiskt valida mätningar av känslor, tankar, beteenden och kontextuella faktorer eftersom mätningarna görs väldigt nära i tid och rum då en upplevelse ursprungligen inträffar. Det är dock oklart hur pass genomförbart EMA är för att mäta emotionsprocesser hos svenska ungdomar. I denna uppsats har vi därför undersökt genomförbarheten av att använda ett EMA-mätbatteri... (More)
- Psykiatriska tillstånd och psykiska besvär är vanligt förekommande hos ungdomar och vid bedömning av psykisk ohälsa har företrädesvis retrospektiv självskattning använts, som innehåller mätfel så som recall bias. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) är en relativt ny samling metoder som mäter människors upplevelser så som de inträffar i vardagen. EMA möjliggör reliabla och ekologiskt valida mätningar av känslor, tankar, beteenden och kontextuella faktorer eftersom mätningarna görs väldigt nära i tid och rum då en upplevelse ursprungligen inträffar. Det är dock oklart hur pass genomförbart EMA är för att mäta emotionsprocesser hos svenska ungdomar. I denna uppsats har vi därför undersökt genomförbarheten av att använda ett EMA-mätbatteri på ungdomar. Genomförbarhet operationaliserades som följsamhet i form av andelen ifyllda EMA-formulär och accepterbarhet som upplevelsen av EMA-mätbatteriet och att delta i studien. Femton (N = 15) svenska ungdomar rekryterades och gav samtycke att svara på EMA-formulär rörande emotionsprocesser fyra gånger per dag under 14 dagar. Vi utvärderade följsamheten, upplevelsen av att delta och slutförandet av studien. Av totalt 24,780 items, besvarade deltagarna 19,663 items (79.4%). Alla deltagare fullföljde studien och förståelsen för items och studien i sin helhet var hög. Deltagarna hade svårare att svara på formulären under lediga dagar. Totalt sett indikerar resultaten på att det är genomförbart att använda EMA för att mäta emotionsprocesser hos svenska ungdomar. Med mindre korrigeringar av tidpunkten för formulären, kan genomförbarheten och följsamheten troligen förbättras. (Less)
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- author
- Andersson, Philip LU and Lindelöf, Magnus LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- PSPR14 20222
- year
- 2023
- type
- H3 - Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
- subject
- keywords
- Ecological momentary assessment, EMA, adolescents, feasibility, compliance, acceptability, emotion processing.
- language
- English
- id
- 9104571
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- 2023-01-09 09:13:56
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abstract = {{Mental health disorders are common in adolescence, and measures of mental health have typically relied on retrospective self-reports that are influenced by measurement errors, such as recall bias. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a relatively new range of methods that assesses experiences as they occur in daily life. EMA enables reliable and ecologically valid measurement of emotions, thoughts, behaviors and context as it operates very close to when and where the experience actually occurs. However, it is unclear whether EMA is a feasible method to measure emotion processing in Swedish adolescents. In this thesis, we therefore examined the feasibility of an EMA measurement battery in adolescents. Feasibility was operationalized as compliance of reporting on the EMA questionnaires and acceptability as how the participants experienced the battery and participation in the study. Fifteen (N = 15) Swedish adolescents were recruited and consented to complete EMA questionnaires on emotion processing four times per day for 14 days. We evaluated compliance, experience of participating and completion of the study. Out of 24,780 items in total, the participants reported on 19,663 items (79.4%). All participants completed the study, and understandability of items and the project was overall high. Participants were less likely to respond to the EMA questionnaires on days off. In sum, findings indicate that EMA of emotion processing is a feasible and acceptable method in Swedish adolescents. With minor modifications of the timing of the questionnaires, the feasibility and compliance can be further improved.}},
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language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{How are you? Feasibility of ecological momentary assessment of emotion processing in Swedish adolescents}},
year = {{2023}},
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