PMID- 36589927
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230103
IS  - 2003-0177 (Electronic)
IS  - 2002-0244 (Print)
IS  - 2002-0244 (Linking)
VI  - 8
IP  - 2
DP  - 2022
TI  - Are Retrospective Assessments Means of People's Experiences?: Accounting for 
      Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Variability when Comparing Retrospective 
      Assessment Data to Ecological Momentary Assessment Data.
PG  - 52-70
LID - 10.17505/jpor.2022.24855 [doi]
AB  - Retrospective Assessment (RA) scores are often found to be higher than the mean 
      of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) scores about a concurrent period. This 
      difference is generally interpreted as bias towards salient experiences in RA. 
      During RA participants are often asked to summarize their experiences in 
      unspecific terms, leaving room for personal interpretation. As a result, 
      participants may use various strategies to summarize their experiences. In this 
      study, we reanalyzed an existing dataset (N = 92) using a repeated N = 1 
      approach. We assessed for each participant whether it was likely that their RA 
      score was an approximation of the mean of their experiences as captured by their 
      EMA scores. We found considerable interpersonal differences in the difference 
      between EMA scores and RA scores, as well as some extreme cases. Furthermore, for 
      a considerable part of the sample (n = 46 for positive affect, n = 56 for 
      negative affect), we did not reject the null hypothesis that their RA score 
      represented the mean of their experiences as captured by their EMA scores. We 
      conclude that in its current unspecific form RA may facilitate bias, although not 
      for everyone. Future studies may determine whether differences between RA and EMA 
      are mitigated using more specific forms of RA, while acknowledging 
      interindividual differences.
CI  - (c) Person-Oriented Research.
FAU - Leertouwer, IJsbrand
AU  - Leertouwer I
AD  - Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2 PO 
      Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands.
FAU - Schuurman, Noemi K
AU  - Schuurman NK
AD  - Department of Methodology and Statistics, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 1, 
      3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands.
FAU - Vermunt, Jeroen K
AU  - Vermunt JK
AD  - Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2 PO 
      Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221222
PL  - Sweden
TA  - J Pers Oriented Res
JT  - Journal for person-oriented research
JID - 101673808
PMC - PMC9773960
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Ecological Momentary Assessment
OT  - affect data
OT  - interpersonal variability
OT  - intrapersonal variability
OT  - retrospective assessment
OT  - retrospective bias
COIS- The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interests.
EDAT- 2023/01/03 06:00
MHDA- 2023/01/03 06:01
PMCR- 2022/12/22
CRDT- 2023/01/02 04:11
PHST- 2023/01/02 04:11 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/01/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/01/03 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/12/22 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - JPOR-8-2-24855 [pii]
AID - 10.17505/jpor.2022.24855 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - J Pers Oriented Res. 2022 Dec 22;8(2):52-70. doi: 10.17505/jpor.2022.24855. 
      eCollection 2022.