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A survey of self-report mood measurement instruments recommends that scales should be easy to self-administer, unambiguous, easy to score, short, and highly informative.
This review provides a survey of multiple mood measurement instruments and outlines key criteria for selecting appropriate scales for research and clinical use.
May inform mood scale selection in clinical practice; leaves open validation in cardiovascular research populations.
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.
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Howarth et al. (1981) conducted a review in Mood measurement. Self-report multiple mood instruments was evaluated on Recommendations for mood scales. A survey of self-report mood measurement instruments recommends that scales should be easy to self-administer, unambiguous, easy to score, short, and highly informative.
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