Examining the Concurrent and Predictive Validity of Single Items in Ecological Momentary Assessments

Song, Jiyoung; Howe, Esther; Oltmanns, Joshua R.; Fisher, Aaron J.

doi:10.1177/10731911221113563

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“…Moreover, research has shown that single-item measures can have good predictive validity and reduce participant burden by keeping surveys brief (Song et al, 2022), and the excellent psychometric qualities of the ESM items used in this study were reported elsewhere (Hoebeke et al, 2022). Future studies could also include brief computerized tasks measuring attention control, though administrating reliable computerized tasks assessing AC four times a day may discourage participants.…”

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Negativity is Key for Understanding the Interplay between Rumination’s Features, Attention Control, and their Ever-changing Nature: A Temporal Network Approach

Hoebeke¹,

Blanchard²,

Bernstein³

et al. 2023

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Rumination is a transdiagnostic correlate and risk factor for mental disorders. However, few studies have explored rumination and its components in everyday life, or their associations with other transdiagnostic processes, such as deficits in attention control, which may be an explanatory mechanism or consequence of rumination. Inspired by the Nolen-Hoeksema’s operationalization of rumination, we investigated the associations between five features of rumination and attention control. Forty participants answered six items four times per day over a two-week period. Using a multilevel vector autoregressive approach, we computed three networks representing temporal, contemporaneous, and between-subjects associations. The results showed that negativity of thoughts temporally drives all other features of rumination and predicts diminished attention control. Negativity was the only feature negatively associated with attention control within the same time point, emphasizing negativity as a driving force of rumination and as a potent pathway in the interplay between rumination’s features and attention control.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 82%

Negativity is Key for Understanding the Interplay between Rumination’s Features, Attention Control, and their Ever-changing Nature: A Temporal Network Approach

Hoebeke¹,

Blanchard²,

Bernstein³

et al. 2023

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“…Consequently, replication of study results utilizing a more comprehensive measure of interpersonal stress is needed to generalize findings. Single item measures have demonstrated significant predictive validity compared with multiple item measures in EMA studies (Song et al, 2022), however, exclusive use of single items in the present study precludes more rigorous psychometric investigation. Finally, this study did not assess contextual factors such as the type of relationship and person associated with endorsed interpersonal stress (e.g., colleague, romantic partner) which may differentially impact the relationship between interpersonal factors and risk for NSSI.…”

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confidence: 87%

Interpersonal stress and nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder in veterans: An ecological momentary assessment study

Halverson

Dillon

Weber

et al. 2023

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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IntroNonsuicidal self‐injury (NSSI) is associated with marked functional impairment and is a robust predictor of suicide attempts. Prevalence rates of NSSI, and self‐directed violence more broadly, are elevated among military veterans. Despite the inclusion of interpersonal difficulty in the diagnostic criteria for NSSI disorder, the relationship between interpersonal risk factors and NSSI is not well‐characterized, especially among veterans. This ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study investigated the hypothesis that interpersonal stressors and associated distress would precede and predict NSSI urge and engagement—but not vice versa—via cross‐lagged multilevel modeling.MethodForty veterans with NSSI disorder completed a 28‐day EMA protocol with three daily prompts assessing NSSI urges, NSSI engagement, the occurrence of interpersonal stressors, and associated subjective interpersonal distress.ResultsInterpersonal stressors preceded and predicted subsequent NSSI urges, but not NSSI engagement, whereas subjective interpersonal distress preceded and predicted both NSSI urges and NSSI engagement.ConclusionResults identified interpersonal stressors as a risk factor for NSSI urges, and interpersonal distress as a risk factor for both NSSI urges and NSSI engagement. Findings highlight the importance of temporally assessing interpersonal factors related to NSSI and suggest that interpersonal distress may be a modifiable risk factor for NSSI.

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“…We assessed desire using one to three items that were designed to assess a brief snapshot of a person’s current level of desire. The items tended to be highly correlated (Studies 1 and 3), and single-item measures demonstrate appropriate predictive validity in experience sampling studies (Song et al, 2022 ). Further, our findings are largely consistent with previous work conceptualizing desire in response to sexual stimuli, whereby patterns of desire change are similar for women and men (Dawson et al, 2013 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Does Sexual Desire Fluctuate More Among Women than Men?

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There is a lay assumption that women’s sexual desire varies substantially over time, whereas men’s is stable. This assumption is mirrored in prominent theories of desire, which posit that women are more variable than men in the extent to which they desire sex, and that women’s sexual desire is more contextually sensitive than men’s. We tested this assumption across three longitudinal studies. Study 1 assessed desire at 3 time points spanning 13 years (Nobservations = 5562), and Studies 2 and 3 (Nobservations = 11,282) assessed desire moment-to-moment over 7 days. When desire was measured over years, women were more variable in their sexual desire than men (Study 1). However, we found a different pattern of results when desire was measured over the short term. In Studies 2 and 3, we found no significant differences in women’s and men’s desire variability. The extent to which desire varied as a function of affective states (e.g., happiness) and relationship-oriented states (e.g., partner closeness) was similar for women and men, with some exceptions; women’s desire was more negatively associated with tiredness and anger in Study 2. These data qualify existing assumptions about sex differences in sexual desire variability.

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Examining the Concurrent and Predictive Validity of Single Items in Ecological Momentary Assessments

Cited by 48 publications

References 51 publications

Negativity is Key for Understanding the Interplay between Rumination’s Features, Attention Control, and their Ever-changing Nature: A Temporal Network Approach

Negativity is Key for Understanding the Interplay between Rumination’s Features, Attention Control, and their Ever-changing Nature: A Temporal Network Approach

Interpersonal stress and nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder in veterans: An ecological momentary assessment study

Does Sexual Desire Fluctuate More Among Women than Men?

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