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Article History

Received: 7 October 2025

Accepted: 15 June 2026

First Online: 20 July 2026

Additional Information

Funding: Not applicable.

Competing interests: Egon Dejonckheere is co-founder and shareholder of m-Path Software, the KU Leuven spin-off company that developed the platform to collect the daily diary data in this study.

Data Availability: The data can be downloaded at the university’s data repository after signing a Data Use Agreement ( ).

Code availability: The analysis code is available at

Author Contributions: The authors made the following contributions. Dominique F. Maciejewski: Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Methodology, Project Administration, Visualization, Writing - Original Draft Preparation, Writing - Review & Editing; Yasemin Erbas: Conceptualization, Writing - Review & Editing; Tak Tsun Lo: Writing - Review & Editing; Egon Dejonckheere: Writing - Review & Editing; Merlijn Olthof: Project Administration, Investigation, Software, Writing - Review & Editing; Andrea Bunge: Project Administration, Investigation, Writing - Review & Editing; Eeske van Roekel: Conceptualization, Writing - Review & Editing.

Ethics approval: The Track your Mood project was approved by the ethical Committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen (Protocol number: ECSW-2021-075).

Consent to participate: Informed consent to participate was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

Consent for publication: Participants were informed about and consented to have their data shared with other researchers after sufficient pseudonomization. pseudonymization.