Study Wright & Staw (1999): study US 1994
- Public
- Social welfare department employees, USA, 199?, followed 4 years
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 81
- Non Response
- 35%
- Assessment
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Questionnaire: paper
Work performance rated by departmental manager.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Positive and Negative mood
- Our Classification
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- Error Estimates
- Cronbach alpha: Positive mood T2: 0.91 T3 0.86 Negative mood T2: 0.93 T3 0.90
- Operationalization
- PANAS scale; 'this day'version.
Subjects indicated the extent to which they experienced each mood state that day on a five point scale ranging from 'very slightly or not at all' to extremely'. Postive and negative mood are measured separately.