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Diary Method

The diary method is a data-collection technique in which participants record their thoughts, behaviours, events, or experiences in their own words at regular or event-contingent intervals over a defined study period. By capturing data close in time to the event, diaries reduce retrospective recall bias and give researchers access to the texture of everyday life as it unfolds — something one-off surveys and retrospective interviews cannot provide.

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Research Diary Method

Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / survey-methodology

Alaszewski, A. (2006). Using Diaries for Social Research. Sage. · ISBN 978-0761941415
Bolger, N., Davis, A., & Rafaeli, E. (2003). Diary methods: Capturing life as it is lived. Annual Review of Psychology, 54(1), 579–616. · DOI 10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145030

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