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Root number
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490906 |
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Semester
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HS2025 |
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Type of course
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Seminar |
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Allocation to subject
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Psychology |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
Methodological seminar: Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) in youth mental health |
| Description |
Mental health problems during adolescence represent a global problem. The focus on the daily level might deepen our understanding about these mechanisms, by taking a person-specific and dynamic approach. The daily life of young people can be study using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methodologies. In the present seminar, the focus will be exclusively on the self-reported EMA, which require participants to answer repeatedly (e.g. several time a day) questions about their momentary or daily experiences. EMA gained popularity since it is believed to result in ecological data, with lower recall biases, being suited for studying naturalistic, within-person processes. By sampling psychopathology manifestations repeatedly, at shorter periods of time, EMA allows the investigation of bidirectional, temporal associations and how these temporal patterns might inform the occurrence of an event (e.g. predicting a suicide attempt based on the daily patterns of emotions and thoughts). For this purpose, using EMA to study youth mental health can have clinical implications and could represent a tool for personalized prevention and intervention strategies.
The present course had two main objectives, which will determine the seminar structure: The first aim is to familiarize the students with the existing research using EMA to study youth mental health problems. For this purpose, in the first part of the seminar, the students will review the literature on the EMA studies in different clinical or at-risk populations of youth. The goal of the literature review is to better understand the type of research questions that EMA can be used for, to gain insight into the different methodological aspects of EMA, and the clinical utility of using such methodologies. Students will work in groups and will summarize the results of the literature review in the form of presentations (1/2 of the final grade).
The second aim of the seminar is to enable students to design an EMA study. For this purpose, using the knowledge gained from the literature review, the students will design their own EMA study. The students will develop research questions, formulate items and an EMA procedure suited for the chosen topic. In this part of the seminar, the students will also gain insights about data analysis suited of timeseries data, The students will be provided with a dataset and they will have to run a series of analyses suited of data issued from EMA studies. Some basic knowledge of working in R is required for this part. Their study design and the results of the data collection will be presented (only if students agree to present their own data) in the form of a presentation (1/2 of the final grade).
Recognition as a "seminar with psychopathological content": Yes |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Stefanie Julia Schmidt, Institute of Psychology, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology ✉
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Dr.
Larisa Cristina Morosan, Institute of Psychology, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology ✉
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ECTS
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5 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Wednesday 12:15-14:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum B 305, Institutsgebäude vonRoll
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| Students please consult the detailed view for complete information on dates, rooms and planned podcasts. |
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