This volume addresses the significant contribution to research methods and, specifically, phenomenology, known as the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). ESM is a research procedure for studying what people do, feel, and think during their everyday lives. It consists of asking individuals to provide systematic self-reports at random occasions during the waking hourse of their lives. Experience Sampling Method: Measuring Everyday Life is intended as a step-by-step guide for social and behavioral scientists who are interested in doing research about the experience and quality of people's everyday lives. Part I describes methods and procedures that have been used effectively for studying human experience; Part II provides the psychometric information necessary to evaluate the reliability and validity of the measurements; and Part III presents a sampler of findings as an indication of the kind of questions that such studies can answer.From the best-selling author of Flow and cofounder of the positive psychology movement, this book is a must-have for advanced masters and doctoral students in departments of Education, Psychology, Nursing, Health, and the social sciences who are studying the human experience in everyday life and need guidelines for how to validate and present their data.

Índice: Part I: The Origins of the ESM; Chapter 1: Epistemological Foundations for the Measurement of Experience: A Systematic Phenomenology The Experience Sampling Method A Brief History How Trustworthy Are Subjective Self-Reports? What Can We Learn From the ESM?; Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations of the ESM: Biology, Culture, and Daily Behavior Subjective Experience in Context: The Interplay of Psychological Processes and Functions Interaction of Individuals and Environments Experience Fluctuations, Well-Being and Development A Theoretical Compass for Exploring Experience; Part II: How to Measure the Quality of... Etc.