Melissa De Smet

Perspective:
Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Our paper on how qualitative research can inform idiographic assessment and personalized care is the Editor's Choice of this issue of Qualitative Psychology! Apart from the absolute honor this also means it's available open access for the whole month! See link below
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Punchy title!

Adding Meaning and Context to Nodes and Edges: A Mixed Methods Approach to Enhance the Validity of Idiographic Networks - Cognitive Therapy and Research Background Experience Sampling Methods (ESM) are increasingly used to derive idiographic networks, which promise more personalized interventions. Using the most frequently used network approach (VAR-m...

Our mixed methods contribution to enhance the validity of idiographic networks based on ESM is now published!

Open access 👇🏼

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

(PDF) Reflexivity in Action: A Qualitative Study on How Researchers Interpret and Practice Reflexivity PDF | Reflexivity is a key principle for ethical research and well-known in the qualitative literature. However, while many has been written about... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

New preprint! Reflexivity in action: a qualitative study on how researchers interpret and practice reflexivity 💢

With Ebru Eksi and Femke Truijens

Full text here:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

GitHub - ben-aaron188/textwash Contribute to ben-aaron188/textwash development by creating an account on GitHub.

Haven't used it myself yet, but a colleague at Tilburg (Bennett Kleinberg) co-developed Textwash, an automated tool to anonymize unstructured text data (now working in English and Dutch).

GitHub.com/ben-aaron188/textwash

Still in the summer write-up of papers?

Have a look at the call for papers on "Quality of life in people with mental disorders – beyond global scores" at Quality of Life Research
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Linked Editorial
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#HRQL #HRQOL #HealthEconomics

🎉 New paper on adolescents' identity experiences in today's society. | Melissa De Smet 🎉 New paper on adolescents' identity experiences in today's society. In this study, we explored the influence of culture on adolescent identity formation using the master narrative framework. Using...

🎉 New paper published on #adolescents' #identity experiences.

Using a bottom-up #qualitative approach, the study contributes to understanding how adolescents develop their identities, by navigating multiple, contradicting sociocultural discourses.

Link to a longer post and full text here👇

Looking even more forward to discussing the contributions in this panel as earlier this week this excellent paper by Jana Uher was published which refers to the work of multiple presenters:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

#SPRKrakow2025 #MixedMethods #QualitativeMethods #PhilSky #Psychometrics

To prepare for tomorrow's panel
"Quality & Quantity: Using #MixedMethods to aid measurement-supported psychotherapy"
how about reading this paper? 👇

Mixed methods allow for an active and continuous validation beyond technological and statistical approaches.

#SPRKrakow2025 #Psychometrics #Networks

No problem, me too! ;)

The MAHA Report Has Been Updated With Fresh Errors One psychologist who is newly cited in the report said the updated reference misconstrues his research.

The MAHA repot has also cited an article of which I am first author wrongly
www.notus.org/health-scien...

We presented our first insights from the ASAP project at #SAA2025. This project develops a youth-tailored mixed methods ESM design.
Check it out osf.io/r6wmp/ 👈

Jennifer Chen presented her first study on youth-driven ESM choices. Find all protocols and materials here: osf.io/5np97/ 👈

Toward Meaningful Networks: How Qualitative Research Can Inform Idiographic Assessment and Personalized Care | Request PDF Request PDF | Toward Meaningful Networks: How Qualitative Research Can Inform Idiographic Assessment and Personalized Care | With the aim of personalized care, an idiographic framework and network-bas...

Now published online in Qualitative Psychology!🎉 Our argument for #qualitative and #mixedmethods research as powerful means to validate the meaningfulness of idiographic assessment aimed at personalized care.
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Full text here 👇
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