Understanding Psychological Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Through ESM Data: The EMOTIONS Project

To examine psychological responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted two large experience sampling (ESM) studies (Study 1: N _{ESM participants} = 327 and N _{ESM reports} = 29,512, Study 2: N _{ESM participants} = 2,272 and N _{ESM reports} = 64,810). Each study subsumed two 14-day ESM waves that took place before and during (Study 1) or during and after (Study 2) the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in Germany. We describe the assessed variables on the trait (e.g., personality) and state (e.g., momentary emotions) level. All data sets and codebooks are shared on osf.io/6kzx3/. The EMOTIONS data are open to collaboration and inclusion in reviews/meta-analyses.