Ambulatory assessment of diurnal changes with a hand-held computer: Mood, attention and morningness–eveningness

Fahrenberg, Jochen; Brügner, Georg; Foerster, Friedrich; Käppler, Christoph

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(98)00160-3

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“…This battery consisted of a mood questionnaire, a relatively short reaction time test, a memory-search test, and a search and memory test, which all proved to be sensitive to fluctuations in performance during shift work. Similar findings were also shown by an ambulatory study conducted by Fahrenberg et al (1999) who assessed daytime changes in mood and attention in a group of students. These authors used a working memory test and a sustained attention test, programmed on a palmtop computer.…”

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24-Hour Assessment of Performance on a Palmtop Computer: Validating a Self-Constructed Test Battery

Varkevisser¹,

Kerkhof²

2003

Chronobiology International

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A test battery was constructed on a palmtop computer for ambulatory purposes. This study explored whether the test battery could assess circadian rhythmicity underconstant routine conditions. Performance, body temperature, and subjective sleepiness of 12 healthy subjects were measured. The test battery consisted of a sleepiness questionnaire and three performance tests: a vigilance detection test, a working memory test, and a choice-reaction time test. The subjects were divided into early-start and late-start groups and were subjected to the constant-routine protocol. All tests showed a trough in performance in the early morning around 07:00h and a peak in the evening between 21:00 and 23:00h. In addition, an afternoon decrement in performance was observed between 15:00 and 17:00h. On average, the circadian (peak-to-trough) variation of the performance variables amounted to 16.9% +/- 1.7 SEM of the maximum across subjects. The late starters showed a larger impairment in performance during the morning than the early starters. This could be attributed to prior wakefulness. The characteristics of the performance rhythms found in this study replicate findings in several other studies carried out under constant routine conditions. In conclusion, the present test battery appeared to be a good tool for future assessment of performance under natural conditions.

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24-Hour Assessment of Performance on a Palmtop Computer: Validating a Self-Constructed Test Battery

Varkevisser¹,

Kerkhof²

2003

Chronobiology International

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“…To account for work-related strains during the academic examinations, acute PS was operationalised via one item that assessed perceived control, following earlier studies (Fahrenberg, Brügner, Foerster, & K€ appler, 1999;Rau, 2004;Rau, Georgiades, Fredrikson, Lemne, & de Faire, 2001). Participants answered the question 'Is the present situation under your control?'…”

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Reduced emotional stress reactivity to a real-life academic examination stressor in students participating in a 20-week aerobic exercise training: A randomised controlled trial using Ambulatory Assessment

Haaren

Haertel

Stumpp

et al. 2015

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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“…Although this paradigm is a powerful tool for studying how accurately people perceive and infer the thoughts and feelings of their interaction partner, given the laboratory context, the external and ecological validity of the findings are of some concern (for a general discussion of this issue see Bolger et al, 2003;Fahrenberg, 1996;Fahrenberg et al, 2002;Wilhelm and Perrez, 2001). Interactions in studies on empathic accuracy were short (some minutes only), and were influenced by the laboratory context (such as a waiting room situation or an instruction to discuss a martial problem or some other topic, which might be negative, neutral or positive).…”

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How is My Partner Feeling in Different Daily-Life Settings? Accuracy of Spouses' Judgements about Their Partner's Feelings at Work and at Home

Wilhelm

Perrez

2004

Social Indicators Research

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ABSTRACT. How accurately do spouses know their partner's feelings when the partner is not physically present, but in a specific setting (at work, or at home)? This question addresses a special kind of empathic inference that relies mainly on content knowledge and projection rather than perception. We answered this question using a computer assisted diary approach. A total of 190 husbands and wives out of 95 couples simultaneously recorded how they were feeling and what they thought their partner was feeling, six times each day during an ordinary week.They also recorded where they were, who they were with, and where they thought their partner was. This enabled us to assess measures of accuracy and assumed similarity under natural conditions in spouses' daily lives. Results showed that the spouses' judgements of the absent partner's feelings relied on their own feelings (assumed similarity). Despite this they were often quite accurate, even when assumed similarity was controlled. In general, our findings indicate that spouses have a basic knowledge about their partner's feelings when they are apart. However, the specific situation, the items being judged, and the gender of the spouses also need to be taken into account.

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Ambulatory assessment of diurnal changes with a hand-held computer: Mood, attention and morningness–eveningness

Cited by 33 publications

References 10 publications

24-Hour Assessment of Performance on a Palmtop Computer: Validating a Self-Constructed Test Battery

24-Hour Assessment of Performance on a Palmtop Computer: Validating a Self-Constructed Test Battery

Reduced emotional stress reactivity to a real-life academic examination stressor in students participating in a 20-week aerobic exercise training: A randomised controlled trial using Ambulatory Assessment

How is My Partner Feeling in Different Daily-Life Settings? Accuracy of Spouses' Judgements about Their Partner's Feelings at Work and at Home

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