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-itemsolution 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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:84447 |
| Date | 31 March 2023 |
| Creators | Petrowski, Katja, Albani, Cornelia, Zenger, Markus, Brähler, Elmar, Schmalbach, Bjarne |
| Publisher | Frontiers Research Foundation |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 1664-1078, 631668 |
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