title: Ecological Momentary Assessment in Physical Activity Research.
abstract: Theories explaining why individuals participate in physical activity often do not take into account within-person variation or dynamic patterns of change. Time-intensive methods such as Ecological Momentary Assessment are more conducive to capturing time- and spatially-varying explanatory factors and intraindividual fluctuations than traditional methods and thus may yield new insights into the prediction and modeling of physical activity behavior.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Preventive Medicine and Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
authors.forename: Genevieve Fridlund
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Dunton
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D000072860:Ecological Momentary Assessment; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology*; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design; D013997:Time Factors