Reliability and Validity of Ecological Momentary Assessment Response Time–Based Measures of Emotional Clarity: Secondary Data Analysis

作者：Raymond Hernandez, Claire J. Hoogendoorn, Jeffrey S. Gonzalez, Elizabeth A. Pyatak, Gladys Crespo-Ramos, Stefan Schneider · 发表于：JMIR Mental Health · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.2196/58352 · 被引用次数：6 · 研究领域：Mental Health Research Topics、Diabetes Management and Research、Diabetes Management and Education

BACKGROUND: Emotional clarity has often been assessed with self-report measures, but efforts have also been made to measure it passively, which has advantages such as avoiding potential inaccuracy in responses stemming from social desirability bias or poor insight into emotional clarity. Response times (RTs) to emotion items administered in ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) may be an indirect indicator of emotional clarity. Another proposed indicator is the drift rate parameter, which assumes that, aside from how fast a person responds to emotion items, the measurement of emotional clarity also requires the consideration of how careful participants were in providing responses. OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to examine the reliability and validity of RTs and drift rate parameters from EMA emotion items as indicators of individual differences in emotional clarity. METHODS: Secondary data analysis was conducted on data from 196 adults with type 1 diabetes who completed a 2-week EMA study involving the completion of 5 to 6 surveys daily. If lower RTs and higher drift rates (from EMA emotion items) were indicators of emotional clarity, we hypothesized that greater levels (ie, higher clarity) should be associated with greater life satisfaction; lower levels of neuroticism, depression, anxiety, and diabetes distress; and fewer difficulties with emotion regulation. Because prior literature suggested emotional clarity could be valence specific, EMA items for negative affect (NA) and...