Mestdagh Merijn, Dejonckheere Egon
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, Leuven, 3000, Belgium.
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, Leuven, 3000, Belgium.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2021 Oct;41:1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.01.004. Epub 2021 Jan 8.
Ambulatory assessment (AA) - a collection of methods that aim to track individuals in the realm of everyday life via repeated self-reports or passive mobile sensing - is well established in contemporary psychopathology research. Unravelling the dynamic signature of patients' symptoms and emotions over time and in their own personal ecology, AA methodology has improved our understanding of the real-time pathogenic processes that underlie mental ill-being. In this article, we evaluate the current strengths and shortcomings of AA in psychopathology research and spell out important ambitions for next-generation AA studies to consider. Regarding AA's current achievements, a selective review of recent AA studies underscores the ecological qualities of this method, its ability to bypass retrospective biases in self-report and the introduction of a within-person perspective. Regarding AA's future ambitions, we advocate for a stronger idiosyncratic focus, the incorporation of contextual information and more psychometric scrutiny.
动态评估（AA）——通过重复的自我报告或被动移动传感在日常生活领域追踪个体的一系列方法——在当代精神病理学研究中已得到充分确立。通过动态评估方法，揭示患者症状和情绪随时间变化以及在其个人生活环境中的动态特征，增进了我们对精神疾病潜在实时致病过程的理解。在本文中，我们评估了动态评估在精神病理学研究中的当前优势和不足，并阐明了下一代动态评估研究需要考虑的重要目标。关于动态评估的当前成果，对近期动态评估研究的选择性回顾突出了该方法的生态学特质、绕过自我报告中回顾性偏差的能力以及引入个体内部视角的作用。关于动态评估的未来目标，我们主张更加强调个体特质、纳入情境信息以及进行更多心理测量学审查。
