FRHD 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Nonprobability Sampling, Smartphone

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

Document Summary

Studying experience in naturally occurring contexts of everyday life. Experience sampling method (esm: feelings and thoughts. Collecting info about context and content of people"s daily life. Taking snapshots of people"s day for an extended period of time. Written responses to open- and closed-ended questions at several random points throughout the day of normal week (signaling device prompts) Questions re: physical context, social context, activities, thoughts and feelings. 1970s, csikszentmihalyi did studies using pagers activated by electronic signals transmitted at random times, centrally: studying flow experiences, at first: diaries later: pagers. Experience of work, work stress, and work satisfaction. Experience of marital satisfaction, parenthood and fam relations. Decide whether esm is appropriate (experience vs. global perceptions) types of appropriate research questions: questions about groups of persons, questions about situations. Appropriate: modest sample sizes, purposive sampling, select ppl who meet certain criteria inappropriate, not comfortable with reading and writing, hard of hearing, certain types of adult occupations.