Associations between the EPELI variables.

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.日常情境执行表现（Executive Performance in Everyday LIving, 缩写EPELI）是一款新近开发的游戏化测评工具，用于客观评估日常情境下的目标导向行为与前瞻记忆（Prospective Memory, PM）。本项预先注册研究，针对一款基于原版儿童版修改、专为居家自主网络测评开发的成人在线新版EPELI的心理测量学特征展开了考察。研究招募255名健康成年人参与EPELI测评，参与者需完成虚拟角色下达的家务操作任务。同时，参与者填写了与前瞻记忆相关的问卷与日记，并完成两项传统前瞻记忆任务与一项智力测验。我们曾提出假说：相较于传统前瞻记忆任务，这款更具"生活真实感"的EPELI任务，与传统前瞻记忆问卷及基于日记的日常前瞻记忆报告之间会呈现更强的关联。但该假说未获得支持。尽管参与者评定EPELI与日常任务的相似度更高，但其任务表现与问卷、日记测评结果并无关联。不过，EPELI中的时间监控行为与传统前瞻记忆任务之间存在显著关联。综合来看，成人版在线EPELI被证实为一种具备良好生态表面效度的可靠测评方法，但其聚合效度仍需进一步研究予以验证。