Researching Daily Life: A Guide to Experience Sampling and Daily Diary Methods

This practical, beginner-friendly book teaches readers how to do daily life research: how to think about the method, design a study, develop suitable assessments, collect data, and disseminate findings. The focus is on the classic, prototypical kinds of projects--studies that sample at least once a day and collect self-report data. These fundamental methods, once mastered, are easy to extend to advanced designs and high-tech assessment tools.