The Measurement of Affect, Mood, and Emotion

A Guide for Health-Behavioral Research

Panteleimon Ekkekakis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

226 Seiten

2013
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-64820-3 (ISBN)

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Affect, mood and emotion are focal points of the booming research field investigating the mechanisms behind health behaviours such as diet, smoking and physical activity. Panteleimon Ekkekakis proposes a sound system for selecting measures for these constructs in an accessible guidebook of particular interest to academic researchers and postgraduate students.

The role of affective constructs in human behavior in general, and health behavior in particular, is recapturing the attention of researchers. Affect, mood, and emotion are again considered powerful motives behind dietary choices, physical activity participation, cigarette smoking, alcohol over-consumption, and drug abuse. However, researchers entering the fray must confront a vast and confusing theoretical and technical literature. The enormity of this challenge is reflected in numerous problems plaguing recent studies, from selecting measures without offering a rationale, to interchanging terms that are routinely misconstrued. The Measurement of Affect, Mood, and Emotion cuts through the jargon, clarifies controversies, and proposes a sound three-tiered system for selecting measures that can rectify past mistakes and accelerate future progress. Panteleimon Ekkekakis offers an accessible and comprehensive guidebook of great value to academic researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of psychology, behavioral and preventive medicine, behavioral nutrition, exercise science, and public health.

Panteleimon Ekkekakis is Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Iowa State University.

Prologue; 1. Documenting the breadth and depth of the problem; 2. Untangling the terminological Gordian knot; 3. Should affective states be considered as distinct entities or as positioned along dimensions?; 4. Are pleasant and unpleasant states independent or polar opposites?; 5. Selecting a measure: a proposed three-step process; 6. The old classics: measures of distinct states; 7. Dimensional measures; 8. Domain-specific measurement: challenges and solutions; 9. Problems of domain specificity: examples from exercise; Epilogue.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.2.2013
Vorwort	James A. Russell
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 17 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie
ISBN-10	1-107-64820-3 / 1107648203
ISBN-13	978-1-107-64820-3 / 9781107648203
Zustand	Neuware