How to assess social regulation of stress and emotions in daily family life? A computer-assisted family self-monitoring system (FASEM-C)
✍ Scribed by Meinrad Perrez; Dominik Schoebi; Peter Wilhelm
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1063-3995
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✦ Synopsis
A major problem for scientific and practical work in many branches of psychology is the reliable access to phenomena under study. Traditional assessment procedures are often reliant on retrospective recall, self report measures and/or laboratory simulations. All these have their strengths and weaknesses. Ideally observations of people's behaviour and interactions, and the monitoring of thoughts and feelings, should be of real events as they occur. This paper focuses on some methodological and reliability issues associated with development in handheld computer self-recording systems and describes a new computerassisted self-monitoring system for emotional processes in families with adolescents. The method is based on simultaneous self-observations of family members older than 13 years. The paper describes the procedures involved in using this approach and demonstrates how to obtain indicators for reactivity, reliability and some aspects of validity.