FRHD 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Data Bank, Binge Eating, Eating Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3070
• Professor: John Dwyer

Document Summary

Studying (cid:498)experience(cid:499) in naturally occurring contexts of everyday life. Collecting info about context and content of daily life of people. Written responses to open and closed ended questions at several random points throughout each day of the normal week. Questions about: physical context, social context, activities, thoughts, feelings. Did studies using pagers activated by electronic signals transmitted at. Studying (cid:498)flow(cid:499) experience (marathoner going for a run and being so at peace they don"t know where they are) At first used diaries (people would write about how they felt doing their random times activities) Later paged them to ask how they were doing and feeling. Experience of work, work stress, work satisfaction. Experience of marital satisfaction, parenthood and relationships. Gender differences in activities and in quality of experience. Decide whether esm is appropriate (experience vs. global perceptions) Types of appropriate research questions: questions about groups of persons, questions about situations (activities, companionship, physical location, day of week, or time of day)