CAN EXPERIMENTALLY-INDUCED MOOD AFFECT OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM SCORES

Citation
Lm. Lewis et al., CAN EXPERIMENTALLY-INDUCED MOOD AFFECT OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM SCORES, Current psychology, 14(1), 1995, pp. 29-41
Citations number
44
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology
Journal title
ISSN journal
10461310
Volume
14
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
29 - 41
Database
ISI
SICI code
1046-1310(1995)14:1<29:CEMAOA>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Subjects experienced one of three mood-induction procedures (music, vi deo, or Velten; positive or negative valence) prior to responding to a recently developed instrument for measuring optimism and pessimism (O /P). Pre- and post-induction mood indices were also obtained via the M AACL-R and the Wessman-Ricks elation-depression measure. All three moo d-induction procedures were effective in establishing the desired mood s, with the video procedure the weakest. Music and Velten, but not vid eo, affected optimism and pessimism scores, but for women only. The re sults suggest, contrary to a previous study, that the optimism/pessimi sm instrument is not impervious to momentary mood states, at least for women, thus somewhat reducing its temporal stability. By the same tok en, however, the results also lend support to the construct validity o f the O/P instrument.