THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DAILY EVENTS AND MOOD - THE MOOD MEASURE MAY MATTER

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作者
KENNEDYMOORE, E [1 ]
GREENBERG, MA [1 ]
NEWMAN, MG [1 ]
STONE, AA [1 ]
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[1] SUNY STONY BROOK,DEPT PSYCHIAT & BEHAV SCI,PUTNAM HALL,STONY BROOK,NY 11794
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10.1007/BF00995516
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
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Measures of daily mood have been used as immediate indicators of the effects of the psychosocial environment, the latter concept often measured by daily events. We examined the prediction of two measures of daily mood, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) and Nowlis Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL), by daily desirable and undesirable events and by day of the week Unlike prior studies, the event assessment and type of subjects studied (community residents) were the same in both studies, allowing an attribution of differential associations between the two mood scales and either daily events or day of the week to the different mood measures. The mood measures had similar and expected associations with daily events, although the MACL scale generally had stronger associations with events. Surprisingly, the pattern of day of the week effects for positive, yet not negative, mood were different for the two mood measures. Consistent with the weekend's increase in desirable daily events, MACL positive affect increased on weekends, relative to weekdays, whereas PANAS positive mood decreased on weekends. Also, for both positive and negative affect scales, the MACL scales had stronger associations with day of week than the PANAS scales. These results suggest caution in the choice of mood measure to use in studies of daily events and pose questions about the meaning of these mood measures.
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