Assessment of goal-directed behavior with the 3D videogame EPELI: Psychometric features in a web-based adult sample
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2023
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24
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PloS one, Volume 18, issue 3
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EPELI (Executive Performance in Everyday LIving) is a recently developed gaming tool for objective assessment of goal-directed behavior and prospective memory (PM) in everyday contexts. This pre-registered study examined psychometric features of a new EPELI adult online version, modified from the original child version and further developed for self-administered web-based testing at home. A sample of 255 healthy adults completed EPELI where their task was to perform household chores instructed by a virtual character. The participants also filled out PM-related questionnaires and a diary and performed two conventional PM tasks and an intelligence test. We expected that the more "life-like" EPELI task would show stronger associations with conventional PM questionnaires and diary-based everyday PM reports than traditional PM tasks would do. This hypothesis did not receive support. Although EPELI was rated as more similar to everyday tasks, performance in it was not associated with the questionnaires and the diary. However, there were associations between time-monitoring behavior in EPELI and the traditional PM tasks. Taken together, online adult-EPELI was found to be a reliable method with high ecological face validity, but its convergent validity requires further research.Description
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Jylkkä, J, Ritakallio, L, Merzon, L, Kangas, S, Kliegel, M, Zuber, S, Hering, A, Salmi, J & Laine, M 2023, ' Assessment of goal-directed behavior with the 3D videogame EPELI: Psychometric features in a web-based adult sample ', PloS one, vol. 18, no. 3, e0280717, pp. 1-24 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280717
