Ambulatory Assessment

Part 1 introduction: ambulatory assessment - issues and perspectives; the naturalistic approach in differential psychology - the consistency issue. Part 2 New methodologies: assessment of experience, activation, and cognitive performance related to the time of the day, setting, and situational consistencies; a computer-assisted self-monitoring procedure for assessing stress-related behaviour under real-life conditions; computer-assisted interaction diary on social networks, social support and interpersonal stress; computer-assisted versus paper & pencil-based self-monitoring - compliance, reactivity, and reliability; temporal analysis of speech patterns in the real world using the LOGOPORT; interactive monitoring and contingency analysis of emotionally induced ECG changes - methodology and applications; field trials oa an interactive ambulatory heart rate monito; ambulatory assessment of parasympathetic/sympathetic balance by impedance cardiography; concurrent assessment of blood pressure, heart rate, activity, subjective state, and free commentaries on important episodes in everyday life; continuous assessment of finger blood pressure and other hemodynamic and behavioral variables in everyday life; towards a comprehensive technology for the recording and analysis of multiple physiological parameters within their behavioral and environmental context; laboratory-field studies for improvement of ambulatory monitoring methodology; strategies and designs in ambulatory assessment. Part 3 Monitoring and assessment in the workplace: psychophysiological analysis of work strain and action-oriented patterns of coping; validation studies of emotional, mental and physical strain components in the field; psychophysiological analysis of the stress-strain processes under different break schedules during computer work. Part 4 Monitoring and assessment of patients: ambulatory assessment of clinical anxiety; psychophysiological monitoring of transient ischemic episodes in patients with coronary heart disease; ambulatory blood pressure monitoring - promises and limitations in behavioral medicine; ambulatory monitoring of sleep apnea; ambulatory assessment of subjective and objective symptoms of diabetic patients; signal-contingent computer diary for the assessment of psychological precedents of migraine attacks.