Abstract Drawing on Michel Foucault’s theories of subjectivity, this paper conceptualizes early blogging and online diary writing as “technologies of the self,” that is, procedures through which practitioners enacted certain identities as Internet users. This study combines archival research, close analysis of websites, and interviews with their creators. It analyzes how the most defining pract...

Chronic incomplete recovery from work may have serious consequences in terms of ill-health. Although vacation is one of the most powerful manipulations of recovery in a field context, up to now only few researchers have addressed the impact of vacation on recovery from work. The aim of the current contribution is to present an overview of previous and current findings in this area and to give s...

Why do some people become more jealous than others? Some people require emotional closeness before sexual intercourse, whereas others are less restricted sexually. Because restricted people may invest more in relationships, they may feel greater rejection and anger when jealous. We tested this hypothesis in a daily diary study of 50 heterosexual dating couples. Participants completed a sociosex...

Several studies document that marital arguments negatively affect mental health. Yet it is also evident that considerable variability exists in emotional reactivity to marital arguments. One such piece of evidence is that wives are more emotionally reactive than are husbands. Using a close relationships perspective, this study explores reasons for this variability by identifying psychosocial ch...

Rita Horvath, Gavin Hudson, Gianfrancesco Ferrari, Nancy Fütterer, Sofia Ahola, Eleonora Lamantea, Holger Prokisch, Hanns Lochmüller, Robert McFarland, V. Ramesh, Thomas Klopstock, Peter Freisinger, Fabrizio Salvi, Johannes A. Mayr, Rene Santer, Marketa Tesarova, Jiri Zeman, Bjarne Udd, Robert W. Taylor, Douglass Turnbull, Michael Hanna, Doreen Fialho, Anu Suomalainen, Massimo Zeviani and Patri...

Concern has been raised about the lack of participant compliance in diary studies that use paper-and-pencil as opposed to electronic formats. Three studies explored the magnitude of compliance problems and their effects on data quality. Study 1 used random signals to elicit diary reports and found close matches to self-reported completion times, matches that could not plausibly have been fabric...

We conducted a small-scale qualitative diary study to gather accounts from five facial cancer surgery patients. Participants were asked to record their experiences, thoughts, and feelings for up to 1 year, as they underwent and recovered from their surgery and adapted to living with alterations in their appearance. In this article, we consider evidence relating to the diary as a research tool a...

We report experience in using a variety of techniques to evaluate user experience, ranging from interviews to observation and surveys. UX was evaluated in sessions by an experimental comparison of three different websites, and over a longer six-month period by a combination of diary studies, interviews and surveys. The advantages and disadvantages of each method are discussed, as well as feedba...

People high in partner-specific socially prescribed perfectionism view their romantic partners as rigidly demanding perfection of them. Case histories and theoretical accounts identify conflictwith romantic partners as a recurrent, core interpersonal problem for people high in partner-specific socially prescribed perfectionism. Most research in this area uses mono-source, cross-sectional design...

This 14-day dyadic diary study of 60 heterosexual couples examines links between attachment insecurities, intrusiveness, and relationship dissatisfaction by exploring the effects of attachment insecurities on intrusiveness and examining the daily interplay between intrusiveness and relationship dissatisfaction. We assessed attachment orientations, daily self-reported intrusive behavior, and dai...