TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring Daily Events and Experiences
T2 - Decisions for the Researcher
AU - Stone, Arthur A.
AU - Kessler, Ronald C.
AU - Haythomthwatte, Jennifer A.
PY - 1991/9
Y1 - 1991/9
N2 - ABSTRACT There has been a burgeoning interest in studying daily events and experiences. This article discusses a variety of methodologic challenges that face daily event and experience researchers. The issues discussed include techniques for measuring events, the development of event checklists, sampling event content, specifying event appraisals, event validation procedures, and the creation of summary measures derived from event checklists. Procedural issues discussed include determining the number of observations and persons needed for daily event studies, the evaluation of response, attrition, and missing item bias, and problems linking event reports over time.
AB - ABSTRACT There has been a burgeoning interest in studying daily events and experiences. This article discusses a variety of methodologic challenges that face daily event and experience researchers. The issues discussed include techniques for measuring events, the development of event checklists, sampling event content, specifying event appraisals, event validation procedures, and the creation of summary measures derived from event checklists. Procedural issues discussed include determining the number of observations and persons needed for daily event studies, the evaluation of response, attrition, and missing item bias, and problems linking event reports over time.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1991.tb00260.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1991.tb00260.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 1960643
AN - SCOPUS:0026215030
SN - 0022-3506
VL - 59
SP - 575
EP - 607
JO - Journal of personality
JF - Journal of personality
IS - 3
ER -