Study Gorman (1971): study US 1970
- Public
- Undergraduate students, Nassau Community College, USA, 1970
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 67
- Non Response
- 4%, 3% refusal, 1% incomplete information
- Assessment
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Multiple assesment methods
Questionnaires administered in class and daily records kept at home during 28 days
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Mood differentiation and complexity
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Operationalization
- P-technique factor analysis, using the highest, average and lowest mood reporting each day during 28 days on 14 Wessman & Ricks Personal Feeling Scales.
Four measures were deducted:
- Percentage of variance explaining
by the first factor (indicative of
low differentiation and complex-
ity).
- Average correlation among mood
ratings (indicative of a lack of
differentiation).
- Number of factors needed to explain
90% of the variance (indicative of
high complexity and differentia-
tion).
- Number of factors explaining more
than 10% of the variance each (in-
dicative of high complexity and
differentiation).