The Questionable Ecological Validity of Ecological Momentary Assessment: Considerations for Design and Analysis
The Questionable Ecological Validity of Ecological Momentary Assessment: Considerations for Design and Analysis
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DOI：
10.1080/15427609.2017.1340052
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Conroy, David E.
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作者：
Ram, Nilam;Brinberg, Miriam;Conroy, David E.
经验采样、日记、生态瞬时评估、动态监测和相关方法是研究传统的一部分，旨在捕捉现实世界中个体行为的持续流。通过设计，这些方法优先考虑生态有效性。本文探讨了这些研究设计所提供的所谓的生态有效性在数据分析过程中如何受到损害。在简要概述了生态瞬时评估类型设计的好处之后，作者强调了威胁生态有效性的设计问题，说明了生态瞬时评估类型数据的典型多层次分析如何损害对现实生活的普遍性，并考虑不引人注目的监测和针对个人的分析如何可以为个人的实际人类生态提供更精确的描述。
Experience sampling, diary, ecological momentary assessment, ambulatory monitoring, and related methods are part of a research tradition aimed at capturing the ongoing stream of individuals' behavior in real-world situations. By design, these approaches prioritize ecological validity. This article examines how the purported ecological validity these study designs provide may be compromised during data analysis. After briefly outlining the benefits of ecological momentary assessment-type designs, the authors highlight design issues that threaten ecological validity, illustrate how the typical multilevel analysis of ecological momentary assessment-type data can compromise generalizability to real-life, and consider how unobtrusive monitoring and person-specific analysis may provide for more precise descriptions of individuals' actual human ecology.