Validity and reliability of the experience-sampling method

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 175, Issue 9, 1987, Pages 526-536

  Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly ^a   Larson, Reed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023253239     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198709000-00004     Document Type: Article

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