TY - CHAP
T1 - Exploring Affect Recall Bias and the Impact of Mild Depressive Symptoms: An Ecological Momentary Study
AU - Colombo, Desirée
AU - Suso-Ribera, Carlos
AU - Fernandez Kirszman, Javier
AU - Felipe, Isabel Fernandez
AU - Cipresso, Pietro
AU - Palacios, Azucena Garcia
AU - Riva, Giuseppe
AU - Botella, Cristina
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Traditional clinical and research assessments rely on retrospective questionnaires, that ask individuals to retrospectively summarize how they felt during the last period. Nevertheless, people are not accurate at recalling past experiences without altering the content, especially when they are required to report their affect. In this study, we adopted a smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to collect daily assessments of positive (PA) and negative (NA) affect throughout two weeks in a sample of healthy students (n = 47). Results showed that both PA and NA are subject to the recall bias; more specifically, people tended to overestimate both affects during the retrospective assessment. This bias was influenced by the presence of mild depressive symptoms as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), which led participants to a greater overestimation of NA and higher underestimation of PA. While NA bias was more context-dependent, PA bias showed more stability across time.
AB - Traditional clinical and research assessments rely on retrospective questionnaires, that ask individuals to retrospectively summarize how they felt during the last period. Nevertheless, people are not accurate at recalling past experiences without altering the content, especially when they are required to report their affect. In this study, we adopted a smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to collect daily assessments of positive (PA) and negative (NA) affect throughout two weeks in a sample of healthy students (n = 47). Results showed that both PA and NA are subject to the recall bias; more specifically, people tended to overestimate both affects during the retrospective assessment. This bias was influenced by the presence of mild depressive symptoms as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), which led participants to a greater overestimation of NA and higher underestimation of PA. While NA bias was more context-dependent, PA bias showed more stability across time.
KW - Ecological momentary assessment Momentary affect Recall bias
KW - Ecological momentary assessment Momentary affect Recall bias
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/148003
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-25872-6_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-25872-6_17
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-030-25871-9
VL - 288
T3 - LECTURE NOTES OF THE INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCES, SOCIAL INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
SP - 208
EP - 215
BT - na
ER -