Tobacyk (1981): study US 1979
Publication
- Author(s):
- Tobacyk, J.
- Title:
- Personality Differentiation, Effectiveness of Personality Integration, and Mood in Female College Students.
- Source:
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1981, Vol. 41, 348 - 356
Investigation
- Public
- Female undergraduate students, U.S.A., 198?
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 31
- Non Response
- 57 %
- Assessment
-
Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
whith a mood-diary kept 3 times a day
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on 16 questions, repeated three times a day during at least 33 successive days (experience sampling)
How I feel now:
A Fullness vs. Emptiness of life ( how emotionally satisfying,
abundant or empty, your life felt today )
B Receptivity towards and Stimulation by the World ( how
interested and responsive you feel to what was going on
around you)
C Social Respect vs. Social Contempt ( how you feel about
other people regard you, or feel about you, today)
D Personal Freedom vs. External Constraint ( how much you
feel you are free or not free to do as you want)
E Harmony vs. Anger ( how well got along with, or how angry
you feel toward, other people )
F Sociability vs. Withdrawal (how socially outgoing or
withdrawn you feel now )
G Companionship vs. Being Isolated ( the extent to which
you feel emotionally accepted by, or isolated from other
people )
H Love and Sex ( the extent to which you feel loving and
tender or sexually frustrated and unloving )
I Present Work ( how satisfied or dissatisfied you are with
your work )
J Thought Processes ( how readily your ideas come and how
valuable they seem )
K Tranquility vs. Anxiety ( how calm or troubled you feel )
Impulse Expression vs. Self-restraint ( how expressive and
impulsive or internally restrained and controlled, you feel )
M Personal Moral Judgment (how self-approving or how
guilty, you feel )
N Self-confidence vs. feeling of Inadequacy ( how self-
assured and adequate or helpless and inadequate you
feel )
O Energy vs. Fatigue ( how energetic or tired and weary you
feel )
P Elation vs. Depression ( how elated or depressed, happy
or unhappy, you feel now )
Scoring: all items scored on 0 - 9 . (Rating scales not reported).
Summation: average
Name: Wessman & Rick's `Personal Feelings Scale' - Classification:
- A-ASA-mp-mqr-v-10-a
- Author's label:
- Mood level