The Measurement of Affect, Mood, and Emotion

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The Measurement of Affect, Mood, and Emotion
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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
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Foreword
Prologue
	First the good news
	Now the not-so-good news
	The goal of this book
1 Documenting the breadth and depth of the problem
	Newcomers, beware: brace yourselves ‘cause this ain’t gonna be easy!
	How bad is the situation, really?
		The head-in-the-sand approach: choosing a measure without providing a rationale
		The dreadful but all too common “this measure was used because it has been used before”
		“They’re all the same”: interchanging terms referring to substantively different constructs
		Measures as sacrosanct legacies: sticking with a measure no matter what
		Internal consistency as the summary index of psychometric merit
		Armed with easy to use software but no theory: confirmatory factor analysis misapplied
		Domain specificity as panacea
	Conclusion
2 Untangling the terminological Gordian knot
	The differences between affect, emotion, and mood
		Recognizing the pitfalls of imprecise and inconsistent terminology
		What is core affect?
		What is emotion?
		What is mood?
		What does this mean and why should we care?
	Conclusion
3 Should affective states be considered as distinct entities or as positioned along dimensions?
	Distinct entities or dimensions: why should we care?
	The distinct-states approach
	The dimensional approach
		Russell’s circumplex model
		Watson and Tellegen’s Positive Affect – Negative Affect model
		Thayer’s two-dimensional model
		The integrative circumplex of Larsen and Diener
		The compatibility of contemporary dimensional models
	The hierarchical structure of the affective domain: an integrative framework
	Conclusion
4 Are pleasant and unpleasant states independent or polar opposites?
	Questions of bipolarity versus independence: what complexities lurk beneath the surface?
		The crucial role of methodological factors
		Evaluative Space Model and “emotionally complex” situations
		Neural considerations
	Current status of the bipolarity versus independence debate
	What does this all mean and why should we care?
5 Selecting a measure: a proposed three-step process
	Justifying the selection of a measure: some examples
6 The old classics: measures of distinct states
	The Multiple Affect Adjective Check List
	The Profile of Mood States
	The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
7 Dimensional measures
	The Self-Assessment Manikin
	The Affect Grid
	The Circular Mood Scale
	The Feeling Scale and the Felt Arousal Scale
	The Evaluative Space Grid
	The Semantic Differential Measures of Emotional State
	The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule
	The Activation Deactivation Adjective Check List
8 Domain-specific measurement: challenges and solutions
	Lack of theoretical basis
	Domain underrepresentation
	The troubled notion of domain specificity
	The “sensitivity” slippery slope
	If not domain specificity, then what?
9 Problems of domain specificity: examples from exercise
	The Exercise-induced Feeling Inventory
	The Subjective Exercise Experiences Scale
	The Physical Activity Affect Scale
Epilogue
References
Index