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education.field_of_study0206 medical engineeringPopulation030206 dentistry02 engineering and technologyProfile of mood states020601 biomedical engineeringShort scalelanguage.human_languageGerman03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineMoodAge groupslanguageResearch questionseducationPsychologyGeneral PsychologyReliability (statistics)Clinical psychologydescription
The present study was conducted with the aim of constructing and validating a short form of the Profile of Mood States (POMS). The POMS is a widely-applied measure for the assessment of an individual's mood. Thus, it is of great relevance for many research questions in clinical and social psychology. To develop the short scale, we first examined psychometric properties and found the optimal 16-item solution among all valid combinations of the full POMS in an exploratory subsample (n = 1,029) of our complete representative sample of the German general population. We then validated this model in a confirmatory subsample (n = 977). Additionally, we examined its invariance across age groups and sex, as well as its reliability. Our results indicate that the POMS-16 is a valid and reliable measure of mood states with minimal losses compared to the 35-item version. Particularly where brevity and an economical assessment is desired, the POMS-16 should be considered.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-31 | Frontiers in Psychology |