Variations in the Circumplex Structure of Mood
- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 21 (8) , 806-817
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167295218003
Abstract
Typically, researchers have emphasized the similarity of the semantic and self-report mood circumplexes. The purpose of the present study was to investigate systematic differences in these structures. The semantic circumplex is defined by two dimensions: valence and level of arousal. The present study demonstrated that when making judgments of their mood, people weigh the arousal dimension less than the valence dimension, whereas in the semantic structure the two mood dimensions are weighed equally. This reduction in the size of the arousal dimension was directly associated with increases in the correlation between self-reported anxiety and depression. The results are discussed with reference to the meaning of subjective mood ratings.Keywords
This publication has 51 references indexed in Scilit:
- A Biopsychosocial Approach to Arousal RegulationJournal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1992
- A taxonomic study of the vocabulary of emotions.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1987
- Dimensions underlying children's emotion concepts.Developmental Psychology, 1983
- The structure in persons' implicit taxonomy of emotionsJournal of Research in Personality, 1982
- A circumplex model of affect.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980
- Evidence for a three-factor theory of emotionsJournal of Research in Personality, 1977
- Multidimensional comparisons of structures of vocally and facially expressed emotionPerception & Psychophysics, 1975
- On the relation between undimensional judgments and multidimensional scalingOrganizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1968
- Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state.Psychological Review, 1962
- Studies in the phenomenology of emotions.The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1957