10 items
A fuller context battery than EMA-Core: physical location, social company, activity and its pleasantness, plus consumption and phone use since the previous beep. Designed to be subset — most protocols use three or four of these, not all ten.
Usage
Items are momentary indicators used individually — there is no total score. The 'since the last survey' items assume a fixed or known inter-beep interval; report that interval in your methods.
Citation
Myin-Germeys, I., Kasanova, Z., Vaessen, T., Vachon, H., Kirtley, O., Viechtbauer, W., & Reininghaus, U. (2018). Experience sampling methodology in mental health research: new insights and technical developments. World Psychiatry, 17(2), 123–132.
doi:10.1002/wps.20526License: Items derived from open literature; free for research use.
Location
Where are you right now?
At home · At work or school · At someone else's home · Outdoors or in nature · In transit · Shop, restaurant or café · Gym or sports facility · Other
Social context
Who are you with right now? Select all that apply.
Nobody — I am alone · Partner · Children · Other family · Friends · Colleagues or classmates · Strangers or people in public · Other
Activity
What are you mainly doing right now?
Working or studying · Leisure or hobby · Social activity · Physical exercise · Household tasks · Eating or drinking · Commuting or travelling · Resting or doing nothing · Other
How pleasant is what you are doing right now?
1–7 · "Not at all" → "Extremely"
How much would you rather be doing something else?
1–7 · "Not at all" → "Extremely"
Since the last survey, have you done any physical exercise?
No · Yes, light · Yes, moderate · Yes, vigorous
Environment
How noisy or busy is your current environment?
1–7 · "Very quiet and calm" → "Very noisy and busy"
Phone use
Since the last survey, how much have you used your phone for social media?
1–7 · "Not at all" → "Almost constantly"
Consumption
Since the last survey, have you consumed any of the following? Select all that apply.
None of these · Caffeine · Alcohol · Nicotine · Other substances
Events
Since the last survey, has anything notable happened that affected how you feel?
Use this module in your own ESM/EMA study — drop it into a survey within SMAAT.