Study details

Baseline session:

Yes

Followup session:

Yes

Study design:

Follows undergraduate students through their first year at university through three waves of data collection: Wave 2 conducted 4 months after Wave 1; then Wave 3 conducted 8 months after Wave 2. Each wave started with a lab session in which participants completed computerized self-report questionnaires and cognitive tasks. After 7 days of ESM, participants returned to the lab, gave back the smartphones, completed additional self-report questionnaires (including the experienced stress questionnaire) and lab tasks, and were paid and debriefed.

ESM measurement waves:

3

Ethics granting body:

KU Leuven ethics committee

Ethics protocol number:

ML8514

Year/s data was collected:

2012 & 2013

Location of participants (Countries):

Belgium

Background information:

The study was conducted to coincide with students' transition to university and to follow students across their first year at university. Participants were selected to participate using a stratified sampling approach so that an equal number of participants from each quartile of the CES-D distribution were selected to participate

Languages:

Dutch

Setting:

IP

Collection platform:

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Preregistration URL:

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Days of ESM data collection:

7

Number of ESM measures per day:

10

Sampling schedule:

signal-contingent

ESM schedule start time:

10:00

ESM schedule end time:

22:00

ESM schedule duration:

12