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

Multiple assesment methods
Questionnaires administered in class and daily records kept at home during 28 days

Correlate

Authors's Label

Day to day variability in specific moods

Our Classification

Remarks

Each of the Personal Feeling Scales was scored each night for the lowest, average and highest mood experienced that day. For Personal Feeling Scales see also under 'Types of Affect' (Part III, A 2.2).

Operationalization

Standard deviation of the lowest, average and highest scores reported each day during one month on the Wessman & Ricks Personal Feeling Scales (see Wessman & Ricks, 1966).

1. Companionship vs being isolated



2. Energy vs fatigue



3. Harmony vs anger



4. Impulse expression vs self-
    restraint


5. Love and sex
    


6. Own sociability vs withdrawal



7. Personal freedom  vs external con-
    straint


8. Personal moral judgement



9. Present work



10. Receptivity towards the world



11. Self-confidence vs feeling of in-
    adequacy


12. Thought processes



13. Tranquility vs anxiety

Observed Relation with Happiness