scholarly journals Ambulatory assessment of rumination and worry: Capturing perseverative cognitions in children’s daily life.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea C. Kramer ◽  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Anja Leonhardt ◽  
Annette Brose ◽  
Judith Dirk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment

State mindfulness, rumination, and emotions in daily life: An ambulatory assessment study

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Ding ◽  
Jiaxuan Du ◽  
Yuyang Zhou ◽  
Yuanyuan An ◽  
Wei Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
State Mindfulness ◽  
Assessment Study

Setbacks in Self-Control: Failing Not Mere Resisting Impairs Subsequent Self-Control

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 782-790
Author(s):  
Mario Wenzel ◽  
Zarah Rowland ◽  
Wilhelm Hofmann ◽  
Thomas Kubiak
Keyword(s):  
Dual Task ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Ego Depletion ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Task Setting ◽  
Fundamental Research

Research on ego depletion has often relied on the dual-task setting employing short tasks with low ecological validity. The comparatively few studies on ego depletion in daily life so far used diverging operationalization and yielded ambiguous results. We argue that fundamental research on short-term self-control limitations can benefit from research on the limit violation effect, which highlights the danger to self-control when setbacks are attributed to internal causes. To test the role of setbacks and compare different ego depletion operationalizations in daily life, we used data from two ambulatory assessment studies ( N = 125 and 205). No consistent ego depletion effects were observed in Study 1; instead, momentary self-control success was only impaired after setbacks (prior self-control efforts failed). The role of prior setbacks was replicated in Study 2, highlighting the importance of setbacks in subsequent self-control efforts beyond mere resisting, which should be incorporated in interventions targeting self-control improvements.

scholarly journals Ambulatory Assessment of Rumination and Worry: Capturing Perseverative Cognitions in Children’s Daily Life

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea C. Kramer ◽  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Anja Leonhardt ◽  
Judith Dirk ◽  
Annette Brose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Unidimensional Structure

Rumination and worry are common forms of perseverative cognitions in children. Research has started to target perseverative cognitions in the everyday life of children, however, valid measurement instruments reliably capturing rumination and worry in children’s daily life are still missing. We conducted two ambulatory assessment studies validating short scales suitable for the measurement of rumination and worry in children’s daily life. Results of the first study (N = 110, 8 – 11-year olds, 31 days, up to 4 daily measurements) supported a unidimensional structure of the rumination scale with high levels of reliability. Rumination was associated with negative affect (but not positive affect) on the within- and on the between-person level. On the between-person level, children who ruminated more showed poorer working memory performance. In the second study (N = 84, 8 – 10-year olds, 21 days, up to 3 daily measurements), findings of Study 1 were largely replicated. Moreover, we established a unidimensional worry scale in Study 2 reliably capturing worry in children’s daily life. Importantly, Study 2 showed that worry and rumination can be differentiated in children. On the within-person level, higher levels of worry were associated with higher levels of negative affect and lower levels of positive affect. On the between-person level, worry was associated with higher levels of negative affect and lower working memory performance. Altogether, findings of both studies demonstrated that the short scales had excellent psychometric properties suggesting that they are helpful tools for the assessment of rumination and worry in children’s daily life.

scholarly journals Ambulatory Assessment in Neuropsychology

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolff Schlotz ◽  
Daniel J. H. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Assessment Methodology ◽  
Functional Impairments ◽  
Neuropsychological Disorders ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Neuropsychological disorders involve a variety of symptoms that often lead to substantial functional impairments in daily life. Research, assessment, and treatment should include a reference to daily life, considering symptoms, personality, and life circumstances of the individual patient. Ambulatory assessment methodology provides progress by avoiding retrospective memory-based bias, increasing ecological validity, and by generating individual time series that permit idiographic analysis. Using multiple sclerosis as an example, we illustrate new findings generated by ambulatory assessment studies in the areas of fatigue, stress and cognitive functions, and we demonstrate future opportunities presented by ambulatory assessment methodology to research and clinical practice with multiple sclerosis patients.

scholarly journals Ambulatory Assessment of Socio-Affective and Cognitive Aging: Zooming Into Daily Processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 561-561
Author(s):  
Tabea Meier ◽  
Andrea Horn ◽  
Christina Roecke
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Cognitive Aging ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
Prospective Memory Performance

Abstract Ambulatory assessment methods offer new possibilities to study cognitive, emotional, and social processes in the setting in which they naturally occur, namely in the daily life of individuals and couples. This allows to zoom into processes with great relevance for healthy aging and well-being over the lifespan. Research on daily psychological processes opens the door for investigating the interplay with contextual (daily stress, social resources) and stable factors (relationship quality status, accumulated discrimination) that are known to shape these dynamic processes. This symposium will present and discuss innovative contributions investigating daily emotional and cognitive functioning and their interplay with social and individual characteristics over the adult lifespan. The first study by Haas and colleagues will present experience sampling data on daily prospective memory performance in couples. Haas et al. will offer a dyadic perspective on cognitive functioning by examining how prospective memory performance is co-regulated in the daily lives of younger and older couples. Meier et al. will present another study from the same couples project; here the focus is on age differences in couples’ “we-ness” and its relationship with daily positive emotional experiences and how they are shared with the partner. The series of talks will be completed by Zavala et al. who examined associations between stress and emotional health in daily life and its interplay with prior discrimination experiences of an age-diverse sample of BIPOC adults. After these individual contributions, Christina Roecke will discuss the presented studies and provide her reflections on the results and their implications.

scholarly journals Characteristics of the Activity-Affect Association in Inactive People: An Ambulatory Assessment Study in Daily Life

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birte von Haaren ◽  
Simone Nadine Loeffler ◽  
Sascha Haertel ◽  
Panagiota Anastasopoulou ◽  
Juergen Stumpp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
Assessment Study

scholarly journals Salivary beta-endorphin in non-suicidal self-injury: an ambulatory assessment study.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Störkel ◽  
Alexander Karabatsiakis ◽  
Johanna Hepp ◽  
Iris-Tatjana Kolassa ◽  
Christian Schmahl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
Endogenous Opioid System ◽  
Endogenous Opioid ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Assessment Study ◽  
Before And After ◽  
And Function

This paper has been published in Neuropsychopharmacology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-020-00914-2. Abstract: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a prevalent and impairing behavior, affecting individuals with and without additional psychopathology. To shed further light on biological processes that precede and result from NSSI acts, we built on previous cross-sectional evidence suggesting that the endogenous opioid system, and especially β-endorphin, is involved in the psychopathology of NSSI. This is the first study assessing salivary β-endorphin in daily life in the context of NSSI acts. Fifty-one female adults with repetitive NSSI participated over a period of 15 days in an ambulatory assessment study. Salivary β-endorphin was assessed before and after engagement in NSSI, during high urge for NSSI, and on a non-NSSI day. Furthermore, NSSI specific variables such as pain ratings, as well as method, severity, and function of NSSI were assessed. We found that β-endorphin levels immediately before a NSSI act were significantly lower than directly after NSSI. However, there was no difference between β-endorphin during high urge for NSSI and post NSSI measures. We found a positive association between severity of the self-inflicted injury and β-endorphin levels, but no significant association between β-endorphin levels and subjectively experienced pain. The results of the present study indicate that it is possible to assess salivary β-endorphin in daily life in the context of NSSI. Furthermore, our results provide a first indication that NSSI acts could be associated with a momentary increase of β-endorphin, and this might reinforce NSSI engagement. More research is needed to replicate and extend our findings on peripheral β-endorphin in daily life.

scholarly journals Ambulatory Assessment in Psychopathology Research: A Review of Current Practices and Recommended Guidelines

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J Trull
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Reporting Guidelines ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
Best Practice Guidelines ◽  
Review Articles ◽  
Recommended Guidelines

In clinical psychology, the use of daily-life research methods is increasing. However, the reporting of these methods is quite variable. We integrate existing best-practice guidelines, review articles from three major journals published over the last 7 years, report percentage of studies that meet these reporting guidelines, and offer recommendations for future AA studies in psychopathology.

Effects of mood and rumination on cortisol levels in daily life: An ambulatory assessment study in remitted depressed patients and healthy controls

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 2258-2267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Huffziger ◽  
Ulrich Ebner-Priemer ◽  
Vera Zamoscik ◽  
Iris Reinhard ◽  
Peter Kirsch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Depressed Patients ◽  
Assessment Study ◽  
Cortisol Levels
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