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Central Clinical States: An Examination Of The Profile Of Mood States And The Eight State Questionnaire, Gregory J. Boyle
Central Clinical States: An Examination Of The Profile Of Mood States And The Eight State Questionnaire, Gregory J. Boyle
Gregory J. Boyle
Two multidimensional mood-state inventories, the Profile of Mood States (POMS) and the Eight State Questionnaire (8SQJ, were administered to 289 Australian college undergraduates. lntercorrelations for the combined 14 subscales were subjected to a higher-order factor analysis in order to elucidate the central clinical states within the mood-state sphere. Results suggested four major state dimensions pertaining to Neuroticism, Hostility/Anger, Vigor, and a combined Extraversion/Arousal-Fatigue entity. Both three- and jive factor solutions were taken out for comparative purposes. Furthermore, separate higher-order factorings of the POMS on normative samples of 350 male and 650 female psychiatric outpatients were conducted, corroborating three of the …