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Assessment of health relates issues in individuals', couples', and families' daily life

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    2008
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  • Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie / Lohaus, Arnold. - Hogrefe Verlag Göttingen. - 2008, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 146-149
English Most research in health psychology is based on retrospective self reports, which are distorted by recall biases and have low ecological validity. To overcome such limitations we developed computer assisted diary approaches to assess health related behaviours in individuals’, couples’ and families’ daily life. The event- and time- sampling-based instruments serve to assess appraisals of the current situation, feelings of physical discomfort, current emotional states, conflict and emotion regulation in daily life. They have proved sufficient reliability and validity in the context of individual, couple and family research with respect to issues like emotion regulation and health. As examples: Regarding symptom reporting curvilinear pattern of frequencies over the day could be identified by parents and adolescents; or psychological well-being is associated with lower variability in basic affect dimensions. In addition, we report on preventive studies to improve parental skills and enhance their empathic competences towards their baby, and towards their partner.
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Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Department
Département de Psychologie
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  • English
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Psychology
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