Assessment of goal-directed behavior with the 3D videogame EPELI: Psychometric features in a web-based adult sample.

ABSTRACT: EPELI (Executive Performance in Everyday LIving) is a recently developed gaming tool for objective assessment of goal-directed behavior and prospective memory (PM) in everyday contexts. This pre-registered study examined psychometric features of a new EPELI adult online version, modified from the original child version and further developed for self-administered web-based testing at home. A sample of 255 healthy adults completed EPELI where their task was to perform household chores instructed by a virtual character. The participants also filled out PM-related questionnaires and a diary and performed two conventional PM tasks and an intelligence test. We expected that the more "life-like" EPELI task would show stronger associations with conventional PM questionnaires and diary-based everyd

SUBMITTER: Jylkka J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10030028 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature