Experience Sampling Methods: A Modern Idiographic Approach to Personality Research

被引:228
作者
Conner, Tamlin S. [1 ]
Tennen, Howard [2 ]
Fleeson, William [3 ]
Barrett, Lisa Feldman [4 ,5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
[2] Univ Connecticut, Ctr Hlth, Storrs, CT 06269 USA
[3] Wake Forest Univ, Winston Salem, NC 27109 USA
[4] Boston Coll, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA
[5] Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Boston, MA 02114 USA
[6] Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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10.1111/j.1751-9004.2009.00170.x
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 [教育学]; 0402 [心理学];
摘要
Experience sampling methods are essential tools for building a modern idiographic approach to understanding personality. These methods yield multiple snapshots of people's experiences over time in daily life and allow researchers to identify patterns of behavior within a given individual, rather than strictly identify patterns of behavior across individuals, as with standard nomothetic approaches. In this article, we discuss the origin and evolution of idiographic methods in the field of personality and explain how experience sampling methods function as modern day idiographic methods in this field. We then review four primary ways in which experience sampling methods have been used to foster idiographic approaches in personality research. Specifically, we highlight approaches that examine individual differences in temporal and behavioral distributions, situation-behavior contingencies, daily processes, and the structure of daily experience. Following a brief methodology primer, we end by discussing future directions for idiographic experience sampling approaches in personality psychology and beyond.
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页码:292 / 313
页数:22
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