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Self‐report multiple mood instruments
Author(s) -
Howarth Edgar,
SchokmanGates KarLá
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1981.tb01771.x
Subject(s) - mood , psychology , clinical psychology , affect (linguistics) , developmental psychology , psychiatry , communication
Some dozen mood measurement instruments are surveyed with an emphasis on multiplicity of mood measurement with applications reviewed under topic headings as follows: Mood scales, Group studies, Drugs and drug use, Alcohol and mood, Mood and smoking behaviour, Birth control and menstrual cycle, Mood and hypnotizability, Sleep and mood, Age, sex and mood, Mood and aesthetics, Mood state manipulation, Scale development and relationships, Recommendations. It is pointed out that any scale to be recommended to prospective users should ( a ) be relatively easy for self‐administration, ( b ) have unambiguous scales, ( c ) be easy to score, ( d ) be quite short in administration time, ( e ) provide the maximum possible information.