Diary Study
The Berlin Diary Study – BDS
July 2005 – April 2008
Prof. Dr. Jaap Denissen
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Data now available
This website is designed to provide free access
to data derived from the Berlin Diary Study - BDS. To avoid overlapping
publications, please notify us of any publication that is being
prepared on the basis of the BDS. If this requirement is not met,
neither the Humboldt University nor Prof. Dr. Jaap Denissen or
Dipl.Psych. Anja Kühnel can be held accountable for
violations of intellectual ownership (i.e., in case one tries to
publish results that were already published in an earlier study using
the same data). The only other precondition for the use of the data is
the co-authorship of Prof. Dr. Jaap Denissen and Dipl. Psych. Anja
Kühnel. The Berlin Diary Study conducted by Prof. Dr. Jaap
Denissen is the world largest diary study. It contains data from over
3000 participants on a variety of psychological concepts.
- personality (Big Five)
- self esteem and self concept
- daily positive and negative affect
- daily contacts and conflicts with family members, friends and
partner
- personal goals and effort to achieve them
- definition and evaluation of important life domains
- additional variables for example amount of sleep, leisure time or
sports activities
To enable researchers to use the data a detailed handbook is available. The handbook contains the test procedure, all collected variables along with their psychometric attributes.
Available Downloads:
-
Handbook for the Use of the Diary Study
- Description and download of the four SPSS-datafiles derived from the Pre-/Post-Test and the Daily Diary Entries
Publications based on the BDS