Supplemental Material for Ambulatory Assessment of Rumination and Worry: Capturing Perseverative Cognitions in Children’s Daily Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Ding ◽  
Jiaxuan Du ◽  
Yuyang Zhou ◽  
Yuanyuan An ◽  
Wei Xu ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 782-790
Author(s):  
Mario Wenzel ◽  
Zarah Rowland ◽  
Wilhelm Hofmann ◽  
Thomas Kubiak

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.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea C. Kramer ◽  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Anja Leonhardt ◽  
Judith Dirk ◽  
Annette Brose ◽  
...  

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.


2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolff Schlotz ◽  
Daniel J. H. Powell

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 561-561
Author(s):  
Tabea Meier ◽  
Andrea Horn ◽  
Christina Roecke

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.


2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birte von Haaren ◽  
Simone Nadine Loeffler ◽  
Sascha Haertel ◽  
Panagiota Anastasopoulou ◽  
Juergen Stumpp ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Störkel ◽  
Alexander Karabatsiakis ◽  
Johanna Hepp ◽  
Iris-Tatjana Kolassa ◽  
Christian Schmahl ◽  
...  

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.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J Trull

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.


2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 2258-2267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Huffziger ◽  
Ulrich Ebner-Priemer ◽  
Vera Zamoscik ◽  
Iris Reinhard ◽  
Peter Kirsch ◽  
...  

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

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