Brief Mood Introspection Scale (BMIS): Open-Source Data

Authors

John D. Mayer, University of New Hampshire, DurhamFollow
Yvonne N. Gaschke

Abstract

Mood experience is comprised of at least two elements: the direct experience of the mood and a meta-level of experience that consists of thoughts and feelings about the mood. In Study 1, a two-dimensional structure for the direct experience of mood (Watson & Tellegen, 1985) was tested for its fit to the responses of 1,572 subjects who each completed one of the three different mood scales, including a brief scale developed to assist future research. The Watson and Tellegen structure was supported across all three scales. In Study 2, meta-mood experience was conceptualized as the product of a mood regulatory process that monitors, evaluates, and at times changes mood. A scale to measure meta-mood experience was administered to 160 participants along with the brief mood scale. People's levels on the meta-mood dimensions were found to differ across moods. Meta-mood experiences may also constitute an important part of the phenomenology of the personal experience of mood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Department

Data Catalog

Publication Date

1-1-1988

Document Type

Data Set

Recommended Citation

The authors give their permission for general research use. Please, though, credit the original article as the source for the scale. The proper APA citation is: Mayer, J. D., & Gaschke, Y. N. (1988). The experience and meta-experience of mood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 102-111.

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