Measuring self-regulation in everyday life: Reliability and validity of smartphone-based experiments in alcohol use disorder.

ABSTRACT: Self-regulation, the ability to guide behavior according to one's goals, plays an integral role in understanding loss of control over unwanted behaviors, for example in alcohol use disorder (AUD). Yet, experimental tasks that measure processes underlying self-regulation are not easy to deploy in contexts where such behaviors usually occur, namely outside the laboratory, and in clinical populations such as people with AUD. Moreover, lab-based tasks have been criticized for poor test-retest reliability and lack of construct validity. Smartphones can be used to deploy tasks in the field, but often require shorter versions of tasks, which may further decrease reliability. Here, we show that combining smartphone-based tasks with joint hierarchical modeling of longitudinal data can overcome at l

SUBMITTER: Zech H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10700450 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature