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Mobile Experience Sampling — Ecological Momentary Assessment in Daily Life

Mobile Experience Sampling (ESM) is an intensive longitudinal data-collection technique in which participants respond to brief, repeated questionnaires delivered to their smartphones at random or scheduled intervals throughout the day. By capturing thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and context at or near the moment they occur, ESM minimises retrospective recall bias and provides a high-resolution picture of psychological and behavioral fluctuations in everyday life.

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  1. Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Larson, R. (1987). Validity and reliability of the Experience-Sampling Method. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175(9), 526–536. DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198709000-00004
  2. Stone, A. A., Shiffman, S., Atienza, A. A., & Nebeling, L. (Eds.). (2007). The Science of Real-Time Data Capture: Self-Reports in Health Research. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195178715

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ScholarGateMobile Experience Sampling (Mobile Experience Sampling Method). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/survey-methodology/mobile-experience-sampling