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Melissa De Smet

@melissadesmet.bsky.social
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I'm an assistant professor in qualitative research. I aim for meaningful idiographic assessment and personalized care by centralizing patients' experiences. Special interests: Youth mental health. Depression. ESM. Grounded theory. Mixed methods. Art.

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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 24/02/2026
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...
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Experience sampling methods require more than numbers - Communications Psychology
The experience sampling method (ESM) collects real-time reports of people’s feelings, actions, and surroundings, and originally included both numerical and open-ended responses. Whereas most studies t...
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Melissa De Smet @melissadesmet.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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Melissa De Smet @melissadesmet.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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...
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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...
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Melissa De Smet @melissadesmet.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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/...
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(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...
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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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 link.springer.com/collections/... Linked Editorial rdcu.be/eBeLT #HRQL #HRQOL #HealthEconomics
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Quality of life in people with mental disorders – beyond global scores
The World Health Organization's 65th World Health Assembly stated that the global burden of mental disorders accounts for 25–33% of all disabilities and ...
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Melissa De Smet @melissadesmet.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🎉 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👇
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🎉 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...
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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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
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Frontiers | Statistics is not measurement: The inbuilt semantics of psychometric scales and language-based models obscures crucial epistemic differences
This article provides a comprehensive critique of psychology's overreliance on statistical modelling at the expense of epistemologically grounded measurement...
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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The MAHA repot has also cited an article of which I am first author wrongly www.notus.org/health-scien...
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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.
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Melissa De Smet @melissadesmet.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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/ 👈
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Melissa De Smet @melissadesmet.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... Full text here 👇 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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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...
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