Diary Methods
Capturing Life as it is Lived
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23313817 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Niall Bolger (0000-0001-8698-8117, New York University), Angelina Davis (0000-0003-4859-5421, New York University), Eshkol Rafaeli (0000-0002-1226-9678, New York University) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 579-616 |
| Publication date | 2003-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4308 • E-ISSN: 1545-2085 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145030 |
| PMID | 12499517 |
| OpenAlex | W2166190112 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 906 |
| References cited | 96 |
In diary studies, people provide frequent reports on the events and experiences of their daily lives. These reports capture the particulars of experience in a way that is not possible using traditional designs. We review the types of research questions that diary methods are best equipped to answer, the main designs that can be used, current technology for obtaining diary reports, and appropriate data analysis strategies. Major recent developments include the use of electronic forms of data collection and multilevel models in data analysis. We identify several areas of research opportunities: 1. in technology, combining electronic diary reports with collateral measures such as ambulatory heart rate; 2. in measurement, switching from measures based on between-person differences to those based on within-person changes; and 3. in research questions, using diaries to (a) explain why people differ in variability rather than mean level, (b) study change processes during major events and transitions, and (c) study interpersonal processes using dyadic and group diary methods.
Cognitive psychology · Data collection · Data science · Interpersonal communication · Social science · Sociology · Applied Psychology · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Computer Science · Homelessness and Social Issues · Mental Health Research Topics · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Attachment insecurities, emotion dynamics and stress in intimate relationships during the transition to parenthood
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Neuroticism's importance in understanding the daily life correlates of heart rate variability
The relation between event processing and the duration of emotional experience
An experience sampling study of emotional reactions to music
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Comparing daily physiological and psychological benefits of gratitude and optimism using a digital platform
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Affective states contribute to trait reports of affective well-being
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Rosy or blue? Change in recall bias of students’ affective experiences during early adolescence
Relationship satisfaction, feelings of closeness and annoyance, and linkage in electrodermal activity
Rumination moderates the effects of daily events on negative mood
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Behavioral facilitation
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Regulation of experienced and anticipated regret in daily decision making
Predicting the duration of emotional experience
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Dynamic associations between emotion expressions and strategy use in Chinese American and Mexican American preschoolers
The relationship between self-distancing and the duration of negative and positive emotional experiences in daily life
A social-cognitive model of trait and state levels of gratitude
Why do bilinguals code-switch when emotional? Insights from immigrant parent–child interactions
Neural and behavioral measures of error-related cognitive control predict daily coping with stress
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Variation in bittersweet nostalgic feelings and their divergent effects on daily well-being
Finding the attractor of anger
A família faz parte da equipe
Daily wellbeing in families with children
Cultural differences in daily support experiences
A diary study on work-related smartphone use, psychological detachment and exhaustion
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The role of weekly high‐activated positive mood, context, and personality in innovative work behavior
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Stress spillover in early marriage
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Event System Theory
The Sociology of Near Misses
Triggers of eating in everyday life
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The link between sacrifice and relational and personal well-being
The relation between valence and arousal in subjective experience
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The incremental validity of average state self-reports over global self-reports of personality
How implicit theories of sexuality shape sexual and relationship well-being
Feelings change
Do you use your head or follow your heart? Self-location predicts personality, emotion, decision making, and performance
Sensing sociability
The dynamics of prayer in daily life and implications for well-being
How was your day? Convergence of aggregated momentary and retrospective end-of-day affect ratings across the adult life span
Modeling support provision in intimate relationships
Dynamics of multiple-goal pursuit
Nostalgia and well-being in daily life
Lightening the load
Stress and reactivity to daily relationship experiences
Awe, the diminished self, and collective engagement
Merged minds
Neuroticism as distancing
Optimistic expectations in early marriage
Intimately connected
The doormat effect
Knowing me, knowing you
Broadening your horizons
The use of personal documents in psychological science
Validity and Reliability of the Experience-Sampling Method
Ecological Momentary Assessment (Ema) in Behavioral Medicine
Relation of implicit theories to the construction of personal histories.
The trait-state-error model for multiwave data.
Effects of daily stress at work on mothers' interactions with preschoolers.
A Dynamic Factor Model for the Analysis of Multivariate Time Series
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Patients' memories of painful medical treatments
A multivariate hierarchical model for studying psychological change within married couples.
Patterns of Natural Language Use
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Capturing momentary, self-report data
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The theoretical status of latent variables.
Using SAS PROC Mixed to Fit Multilevel Models, Hierarchical Models, and Individual Growth Models
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The CES-D Scale
Hierarchical linear models
The Psychology of Survey Response
Multilevel Analysis
Sensitivity to status-based rejection
Health Outcomes and Cognitive Aspects of Recalled Negative Life Events
Individual Differences in Reactivity to Daily Events
Experiential correlates of time alone in adolescence1
Self‐Recording of Everyday Life Events
Witnessing Interparental Psychological Aggression in Childhood
Personality and Daily Experience
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Everyday Sexism
Daily data collection
Regulatory control and adults' stress-related responses to daily life events
Valence focus and arousal focus
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Using covariance structure analysis to detect correlates and predictors of individual change over time
Daily Variation in Paternal Engagement and Negative Mood
Separating individual and group effects
Intimacy as an interpersonal process
Memory accuracy in the recall of emotions
Daily interpersonal experiences, context, and alcohol consumption
Changes in the marital relationship after the first baby is born
Sex differences in social participation
Hard times and hurtful partners
Individual differences in entrainment of mood to the weekly calendar
Anger Transmission from Mother to Child
Daily Transmission of Tensions between Marital Dyads and Parent-Child Dyads
Emotional Transmission in Couples Under Stress
Exemplification of a Method for Scaling Life Events
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The correlational analysis of dyad-level data in the distinguishable case
| Unique citing works | 906 |
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| Citations per year | 39,39 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 779 |