What is it about?
Occupational science often relies on people's memories of their experiences. This article shows how brief, real-time surveys can capture the experiencing self—the person's immediate, in-the-moment experience—providing a richer understanding of everyday occupations.
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Why is it important?
Understanding occupation requires more than knowing what people remember or believe about their experiences- it also requires understanding what they experience in the moment. This isn't always the same as their memories. By capturing the experiencing self, ecological momentary assessment offers occupational scientists a powerful new way to study occupation as it unfolds in everyday life.
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I was initially trained as an occupational scientist, and then trained in ecological momentary assessment by psychologists. For me, this paper was an attempt to bring these worlds closer together, as each could potentially benefit from one another.
Raymond Hernandez
University of Southern California
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This page is a summary of: Using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) to understand occupation from the perspective of the experiencing self: An illustrative example in workers with type 1 diabetes, Journal of Occupational Science, December 2024, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2024.2431138.
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