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Mood Changes in Relation to Age, EPI Scores, Time and Day
Author(s) -
CHRISTIE MARGARET J.,
VENABLES PETER H.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1973.tb00846.x
Subject(s) - extraversion and introversion , neuroticism , psychology , adjective check list , mood , personality , eysenck personality questionnaire , population , evening , clinical psychology , big five personality traits , developmental psychology , social psychology , demography , physics , astronomy , sociology
Eighty male subjects between the ages of 23 and 59 years completed Nowlis Mood Adjective Check Lists (MACL) at the beginning and end of a Friday and a Monday: both occasions were working days. In addition, they completed a questionnaire designed to assess the extent to which their jobs were regarded as congenial, and the extent to which they were perceived as stressful. Eysenck Personality Inventories were also completed. The subject population was classified by age, extraversion and neuroticism, and the MACL data were examined by means of analyses of variance. The dimensions providing the most significant data were those of Activation, Deactivation and Concentration: these could be summed to provide a dimension designated Efficiency, the results from analysis of which are described. There were, in general, biggest MACL score changes in subjects with high Neuroticism/low Extraversion scores, and lowest in subjects having low Neuroticism/high Extraversion scores. In the Efficiency data there was a reduction in the evening score for all the subgroups formed on the basis of the personality inventory ratings. The results are discussed in relation to research on one‐day absence from industry; as the subjects of this study reported that their work was congenial, it would be of interest to have similar data from a subject population regarding itself as being employed in uncongenial working conditions.