The Experience Sampling Method
Published 1 January 2014
Reed Larson, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
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Abstract
The Experience Sampling Method (ESM) is a research procedure for studying what people do, feel, and think during their daily lives, It consists in asking individuals to provide systematic self-reports at random occasions during the waking hours of a normal week. Sets of these self-reports from a sample of individuals create an archival file of daily experience.
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