Final - Intensive Repeated Measurement in Naturalistic Settings (IRM-NS) (Moskowitz et al.)

Question 1

What are 3 strengths and 2 weaknesses of one occasion self-report measures?

Answer 1

• standardization of stimuli
• ease of use
• capacity for sampling domain
• reconstructive memory process can introduce error
• impression management/social desirability

Question 2

What are 2 strengths and 3 weaknesses of behavioral observation measures?

Answer 2

• no memory problems
• impression management less of an issue
• resource intensive
• hard to do in naturalistic settings
• lab settings might not be valid

Question 3

(T/F) IRM-NS always relies on self report

Answer 3

FALSE, main but not only method (ex smart watch for HR)

Question 4

What are the 4 designs for collecting IRM-NS?

Answer 4

• time-contingent recording (fixed time interval sampling)
• signal-contingent recording (random time interval sampling)
• event-contingent recording (event sampling)
• burst design (periods of measurement interspersed w periods of no measurement; mix of 3 other methods)

Question 5

Which method of IRM-NS is most often used for developmental research?

Answer 5

• burst designs

Question 6

What are 5 benefits of IRM-NS?

Answer 6

• less reliance on participant retrospective memories
• less reliance on P to integrate info ab self
• can provide contextual info
• aggregation of multiple assessments increases reliability and validity
• can use to characterize fluctuations and stability in indiv

Question 7

The social behavior inventory is an example of what method of measurement for IRM-NS? How does it work?

Answer 7

• event-contingent recording method
• forms to report interpersonal behaviors for 20d
• recording instigated by social interaction event
• typically report 6-7 events per day

Question 8

What are the dimensions of interpersonal behavior on the interpersonal circle?

Answer 8

• quarrelsome
• agreeable
• dominant
• submissive

Question 9

what scale development approach was used for the social behavior inventory?

Answer 9

• construct approach
• interpersonal circle model used to define constructs
• gathered items from questionnaires and interviews
• judges rated items
• study to assess reliability and validity

Question 10

What is the stability across days for the social behavior inventory?

Answer 10

• high!
• avg of all inter-day correlations above .93 for all dimensions

Question 11

What does stability of behavior across different numbers of days suggest about the social behavior inventory?

Answer 11

• similarly reliable @ 12d vs 20d so could shorten if needed!

Question 12

What is the internal consistency of behavior scales in the social behavior inventory?

Answer 12

• corr btw items within each domain
• low ish (mostly around .5)
• not unsurprising bc domains are broad and few items per domain

Question 13

Do patterns of relations among social behavior inventory scales match the theoretical model?

Answer 13

generally yes!

Question 14

(T/F) there is not much convergent validity of social behavior inventory with existing one-occasion questionnaires

Answer 14

FALSE, mostly good convergent validity

Question 15

What are the 2 measures of intraindividual variabilityin IRM-NS?

Answer 15

• flux: fluctuations in each dimension
• spin: fluctuations in angular rotation around the person’s mean angular rotation

Question 16

What is flux?

Answer 16

• measure of intraindividual variability
• basically SD in scores (how dramatically do scores fluctuate across days)

Question 17

What is spin?

Answer 17

• measure of intraindividual variability
• SD of all angular displacements

Question 18

What does it mean when a vector for behavior is further from the center of the behavior circle?

Answer 18

• further from the center is more extreme

Question 19

What is the stability across weeks of spin and flux for the social behavior inventory?

Answer 19

• pretty high for all!

Question 20

Social Behavior Inventory using ECR has:
- ____ stability
- ____ internal consistency
- ____ convergent and discriminant validity

Answer 20

• HIGH stability
• MODERATE internal consistency
• GOOD convergent and discriminant validity

Question 21

What are 2 concerns w ECR w Social Behavior Inventory?

Answer 21

• difficult to interpret meaning of indivs scores (no norms!)
• target individuals might not comply