Experience Sampling Method: Measuring the Quality of Everyday Life

✍ Scribed by Joel M. Hektner, Jennifer A. Schmidt, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Experience Sampling Method: Measuring the Quality of Everyday Life is the first book to bring together the theoretical foundations and practical applications of this indispensable methodology. Authors Joel M. Hektner, Jennifer A. Schmidt, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi provide fascinating information for anyone interested in how people go about their daily lives.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
PART I The Origins of ESM......Page 16
1. Epistemological Foundations for the Measurement of Experience
......Page 18
2. Theoretical Foundations of ESM
......Page 30
PART II How to Measure the Quality of Everyday Life......Page 44
3. Collecting the Data
......Page 46
4. Dealing With the Data
......Page 76
5. Types of Analyses
......Page 96
6. Psychometrics of ESM Data
......Page 118
PART III Uses of ESM in Social Science Research......Page 138
7. Samples of Experience
......Page 140
8. The Experience of Males and Females......Page 164
9. The Experience of Family Life
......Page 178
10. The Experience of Work
......Page 196
11. Examining Cross-Cultural Differences......Page 220
12. Educational Applications
......Page 244
13. Clinical Applications......Page 268
Concluding Thoughts......Page 292
Appendix A. Sample ESM Data Collection Forms (ESFs)
......Page 308
Appendix B. ESM Coding Scheme Used in the Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development
......Page 314
References......Page 324
Index......Page 356