ESM-Q: A consensus-based quality assessment tool for experience sampling method items.

ABSTRACT: The experience sampling method (ESM) is increasingly used by researchers from various disciplines to answer novel questions about individuals' daily lives. Measurement best practices have long been overlooked in ESM research, and recent reviews show that item quality is often not reported in ESM studies. The absence of information about item quality may be partly explained by the lack of consensus on how ESM item quality should be evaluated. As part of the ESM Item Repository project (esmitemrepository.com)-an international open science initiative that collects ESM items in an open item bank and evaluates their quality-we brought together 42 international ESM experts to develop an ESM item quality assessment tool. In four Delphi phases, experts suggested 57 item quality criteria, rated the

SUBMITTER: Eisele G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12599268 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature