In this chapter, we provide a basic introduction to the measurement of mood. After decades
of neglect, mood emerged as a seminal concept within psychology during the 1980s, and its …

Affect has a long history in the social and behavioral sciences. It has played a central role in
a wide range of theoretical developments and has comprised a large and active field of …

OBJECTIVE: This article is one of the series of review articles aiming to present a convenient
guideline for practicing clinicians in their selection of scales for clinical and research …

For years, affect researchers have debated about the true dimensionality of mood. Some
have argued that positive and negative moods are largely independent and can be …

Affect plays a central role in human experience, providing the ongoing hedonic tone that
colors the everyday lives of individuals. Not surprisingly, therefore, affect occupies an …

The role of affective constructs in human behavior in general, and health behavior in
particular, is recapturing the attention of researchers. Affect, mood, and emotion are again …

Emotion: Theory, Research, and Experience, Volume 4: The Measurement of Emotion
provides an examination of the key issue of how to measure emotion. The book contains …

My plan is to discuss four topics related to mood:(a) the renewal of interest in mood during
the past two decades as one of the developments in human psychopharamacology;(b) …

Affect is central to human functioning. Due to its dynamic nature, it is often studied with
intensive longitudinal designs, yet the development and validation of measures for this …

In recent studies of the structure of affect, positive and negative affect have consistently
emerged as two dominant and relatively independent dimensions. A number of mood scales …