diff --git a/config.yaml b/config.yaml
index fb717f5f..61344d29 100644
--- a/config.yaml
+++ b/config.yaml
@@ -710,7 +710,8 @@ ALL_CLEANING_OVERALL:
         COMPUTE: True
         MIN_OVERLAP_FOR_CORR_THRESHOLD: 0.5
         CORR_THRESHOLD: 0.95
-      STANDARDIZATION: False
+      STANDARDIZATION: True
+      TARGET_STANDARDIZATION: False
       SRC_SCRIPT: src/features/all_cleaning_overall/straw/main.py
 
 
diff --git a/src/features/all_cleaning_overall/straw/main.py b/src/features/all_cleaning_overall/straw/main.py
index 1362358d..197c285d 100644
--- a/src/features/all_cleaning_overall/straw/main.py
+++ b/src/features/all_cleaning_overall/straw/main.py
@@ -169,8 +169,12 @@ def straw_cleaning(sensor_data_files, provider, target):
         # Expected warning within this code block
         with warnings.catch_warnings():
             warnings.simplefilter("ignore", category=RuntimeWarning)
-            features.loc[:, ~features.columns.isin(excluded_columns + ["pid"] + nominal_cols)] = \
-                features.loc[:, ~features.columns.isin(excluded_columns + nominal_cols)].groupby('pid').transform(lambda x: StandardScaler().fit_transform(x.values[:,np.newaxis]).ravel())
+            if provider["TARGET_STANDARDIZATION"]:
+                features.loc[:, ~features.columns.isin(excluded_columns + ["pid"] + nominal_cols)] = \
+                    features.loc[:, ~features.columns.isin(excluded_columns + nominal_cols)].groupby('pid').transform(lambda x: StandardScaler().fit_transform(x.values[:,np.newaxis]).ravel())
+            else:
+                features.loc[:, ~features.columns.isin(excluded_columns + ["pid"] + nominal_cols + ['phone_esm_straw_' + target])] = \
+                    features.loc[:, ~features.columns.isin(excluded_columns + nominal_cols + ['phone_esm_straw_' + target])].groupby('pid').transform(lambda x: StandardScaler().fit_transform(x.values[:,np.newaxis]).ravel())
 
     graph_bf_af(features, "8standardization")