Investigating Conscious Experience through the Beeper Project

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent A. Punzo ◽  
Emily Miller
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Adolescent Psychology ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Student Research ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Psychology Courses ◽  
Random Times

The Experience Sampling Method (ESM; Larson & Csikszentmihalyi, 1983) is a means to investigate the subjective experiences of individuals as they go about their daily lives. Students from 2 Adolescent Psychology courses used the ESM in a required “beeper project.” Student research teams investigated a typical week in the life of an adolescent by paging research participants at random times and asking them to complete an experience sampling form each time. Students analyzed the data and wrote a paper on a week in the life of an adolescent. Evaluations of the project demonstrate that students found it to be an enjoyable, useful, interesting, and helpful course project.

scholarly journals Factors predicting satisfaction with communication in daily lives of adults who stutter: An experience sampling study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomosumi Haitani ◽  
Naomi Sakai ◽  
Koichi Mori
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Latent Factors ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Opposite Trend ◽  
Adults Who Stutter

Purpose: Improving satisfaction with communication (SC) is one of the issues in treatments of adults who stutter (AWS). SC can be influenced by self-rated stuttering severity (SS), negative/positive emotions, and emotion regulations and they are variable in daily communications. The present study aimed to explore factors predicting SC in daily communications of AWS, considering their variabilities and speaking contexts.Method: Twenty-seven AWS were surveyed by trait questionnaires and then by experience sampling method (ESM) seven times per day for 2 weeks, reporting speaking contexts and subjective experiences, including SC, SS, negative/positive emotions, and emotion regulations. Intra- and inter- individual variabilities and relationships of the variables were investigated.Results: Speaking contexts were summarized by unofficial/official communications. SC, SS, and emotion regulations in unofficial communications were less variable and SC was more strongly related to trait questionnaires. Items of the ESM loaded on three latent factors in each communication type, including (1) negative emotion, (2) stuttering and associated reactions (including SS and stuttering-and anxiety-related behaviors and cognitions), and (3) positive emotion and attending to communication. SC was more strongly associated with (3) than (2) in unofficial communications while the opposite trend was found in official communications.Conclusions: SC, SS, and stuttering-and anxiety-related emotion regulations in unofficial communications are more trait-like. Not only negative emotion regulations but also positive emotion regulations should be treated to improve SC in AWS, considering speaking contexts.

Everyday Thoughts in Time: Experience Sampling Studies of Mental Time Travel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Baumeister
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Mental Time Travel ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Sampling Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Future Thought

Time is an important yet mysterious aspects of human conscious experience. We investigated time in everyday thoughts. Two community samples, contacted at random points for three (Study 1; 6,686 reports) and 14 days (Study 2; 2,361 reports), reported on their most recent thought. Both studies found that thoughts about the present and future were frequent, whereas thoughts about the past were rare. Thoughts about the present were common during social interaction, felt pleasant, but lacked to meaningfulness. Thoughts about the future included desires to satisfy goals and usually involved planning. Thoughts about the past were relatively unpleasant and involuntary. Subjective experiences of past and future thoughts often were similar and differed from present focus, consistent with views that memory and prospection use similar mental structures. Taken together, the present work provides unique insights into the conscious experience of time highlights the pragmatic utility of future thought.

scholarly journals Exploring the feasibility and usability of the experience sampling method to examine the daily lives of patients with acquired brain injury

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 754-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Lenaert ◽  
Max Colombi ◽  
Caroline van Heugten ◽  
Sascha Rasquin ◽  
Zuzana Kasanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Experience Sampling Method ◽  
Acquired Brain Injury ◽  
Daily Lives

Application of the Experience Sampling Method to the Study of the Effects of Exercise Withdrawal on Weil-Being

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lise Gauvin ◽  
Attila Szabo
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Experience Sampling Method ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Random Times ◽  
Experimental Group

This study examined the effects of 1-week exercise deprivation on the mood and subjectively perceived physical symptoms of college students highly committed to exercise; it employed the experience sampling method (ESM). Male and female subjects (N=21) filled out questionnaires four random times a day in response to the tone of a pager for 35 days. Subjects who were randomly assigned to the experimental condition refrained from exercising between Days 15 and 21 of the procedure whereas those in the control group maintained their regular levels of physical activity. Results indicated that subjects in the experimental group reported more symptoms than at baseline and in comparison to the control group during and following the week of exercise withdrawal. Results are interpreted in light of Pennebaker's (1982) competing cue, selective attention, and schema hypotheses. Suggestions for the application of the ESM in exercise and sport psychology are provided.

Smartphone and Flow

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Razieh Pourafshari
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Experience Sampling Method ◽  
Flow State ◽  
Daily Lives

Using Experience Sampling Method (ESM), we investigated the impacts of smartphone Interruptions on flow state - the experience of deep absorption to the task at hand- in different activities in students’ daily lives

Emotional Variability Predicts Tiredness in Daily Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aire Mill ◽  
Anu Realo ◽  
Jüri Allik
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Experience Sampling Method ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Intraindividual Variability ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Over Time

Abstract. Intraindividual variability, along with the more frequently studied between-person variability, has been argued to be one of the basic building blocks of emotional experience. The aim of the current study is to examine whether intraindividual variability in affect predicts tiredness in daily life. Intraindividual variability in affect was studied with the experience sampling method in a group of 110 participants (aged between 19 and 84 years) during 14 consecutive days on seven randomly determined occasions per day. The results suggest that affect variability is a stable construct over time and situations. Our findings also demonstrate that intraindividual variability in affect has a unique role in predicting increased levels of tiredness at the momentary level as well at the level of individuals.

Monitoring Daily Life Using Mobile Phones: The Experience Sampling Method

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Preziosa ◽  
Marta Bassi ◽  
Daniela Villani ◽  
Andrea Gaggioli ◽  
Giuseppe Riva
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Experience Sampling Method

MOTIVATION AND PLEASURE IN THE SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM–FINDINGS FROM THE PRODROME

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
G Foussias ◽  
G Remington ◽  
R Mizrahi
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Personal Digital Assistant ◽  
Prodromal Phase ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Schizophrenia Spectrum ◽  
Influence Functional ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Positive And Negative Symptoms

Background: Schizophreniais a chronic and debilitating illness that affects approximately one percent of the population. The symptoms of schizophrenia are typically thought of in separate domains, including positive symptoms (hallucinations and delusions), negative symptoms (diminished emotional expression and amotivation), and cognitive deficits. Importantly, the negative symptoms have been consistently found to adversely influence functional outcomes, in particular due to markedamotivation.^1 There have been suggestions that these individuals also experience deficits in the experience of pleasure, especially in their capacity to anticipate pleasure.^2 However, such investigations have not included the examination of these symptoms in those in the prodromal phase ofthis illness, a time that holds promise for early intervention and altering thecourse of schizophrenia.^3 Methods: In an effort to examine deficits in motivation and pleasure in the prodromal phase of schizophrenia, we have used an experience sampling method to assess “in the moment” motivation and pleasure in individuals at high risk of developing schizophrenia and healthy controls. Subjects completed baseline assessments including evaluation of their positive and negative symptoms. Subsequently, through the use of a personal digital assistant, subjects rated their motivation and experience of consummatory and anticipatory pleasure in their daily lives, multiple times over the course of four days. Results and Conclusions: Preliminary data will be presented, as well as the importance of these findings in the context of understanding the underlying pathobiology of this illness, and guiding our search for effective treatments to improvefunctional outcomes in schizophrenia. References: 1. Sayers SL, Curran PJ, Mueser KT. Psychol Assessment 1996;8:269-80. 2. Gard DE, Kring AM, Gard GM, et al.. Schizophr Res 2007;93:253-60.

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