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Researching daily life: A guide to experience sampling and daily diary methods.

DOI: 10.1037/0000236-000

ISBN: 9781433834578

Publisher: American Psychological Association - American Psychological Association

Mar 22, 2021

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What are daily life methods?

Silvia, Paul J.; Cotter, Katherine N.

Pages: 3 –15

A large community of researchers has a passionate and nosy interest in what people are doing in their ordinary environments in their everyday lives. Some researchers are interested in mundane, ordinary events—the ones that make up most of our lives—for their own sake. Others study real-world...
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Choosing a sampling design.

Silvia, Paul J.; Cotter, Katherine N.

Pages: 17 –33

When we think about sampling in research, we usually think about sampling people from a population of interest. In daily life research, we have two layers of sampling. We do sample people, of course, by recruiting them to take part in our research project, but we then go on to sample from their...
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Designing self-report surveys.

Silvia, Paul J.; Cotter, Katherine N.

Pages: 35 –51

Stripped down to its basics, self-report daily life research involves two things: signaling people in their real-world environment and giving them a survey. This chapter discusses how to design and give daily life surveys. Even though daily life research explores most of the same affective,...
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Selecting a system for signals and surveys.

Silvia, Paul J.; Cotter, Katherine N.

Pages: 53 –67

When daily life researchers get together, they usually gossip about their systems for data collection: what people are using to send beeps and collect data, how much they like it, and what shiny new options are on the horizon. New researchers want to jump straight into picking a research system,...
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Collecting data.

Silvia, Paul J.; Cotter, Katherine N.

Pages: 69 –92

This chapter discusses the two acts of collecting data. First, it describes how to plan and pilot our daily life data collection procedures. Some of the things we pilot will be standard: Are there any typos? Do the questions appear in the correct order? Does the survey branch like it should? But...
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Cleaning and processing your data.

Silvia, Paul J.; Cotter, Katherine N.

Pages: 93 –109

Much like humans, data files enter the world confused and unruly. All modes of research require wrangling, cleaning, checking, and preparing the data for analysis. Daily life data in their raw form are particularly messy, so we will need to scrub them clean so that they're presentable in public....
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Analyzing daily life data.

Silvia, Paul J.; Cotter, Katherine N.

Pages: 111 –125

This chapter highlights some of the quirky and vexing issues involved with daily life data. It prevents readers from leaping into a daily life study without first looking at the gnarled and lumpy data set they will land on. The chapter walks through the distinctive features of daily life data and...
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Presenting and publishing your research.

Silvia, Paul J.; Cotter, Katherine N.

Pages: 127 –138

The final stages of a research project—sharing our findings through presentations and publications—are rewarding but daunting tasks. Sharing our research with our colleagues—through posters, presentations, and ultimately publication—is the natural endpoint of research. This chapter offers...

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