This workshop will provide an introduction to assessing momentary emotions
and emotion regulation strategies in everyday life using the experience
sampling method/ecological momentary assessment (ESM/EMA). The workshop
will focus on selecting/developing survey items to assess emotion in daily
life. We will also briefly cover other design issues, including ESM/EMA
sampling frequency, study duration, questionnaire length, online
participant recruitment and on-boarding, participant incentives, software
options. Finally, we will discuss some common challenges and pitfalls of
using ESM/EMA to study emotion in daily life.