Profile of Mood States

Profile of Mood States

It is normally documented that people vary markedly in their sentiment and mood states. Recreation, drink, food, music and drama can alter mood. The influence of a drug, like coffee for instance, or marijuana and alcohol is known to alter the mood states. Apart from this, social associations and varying environments also have a great tendency to profoundly affect mood states. The Bipolar form of the Profile of Mood States (POMS-BI) was established for the purpose of measuring 6 bipolar mood states. A scale comprising 12 phrases or adjectives defines each mood. Positive and negative aspects of the dimension are defined by two poles.

The Composed-Anxious scale is used for the measurement of a state that may range from untroubled, calm, tranquil and serene to a state of being agitated, anxious, or troubled. On the other hand, the Agreeable-Hostile scale marks the emotions ranging from amicable, kind and concerned at the dimension's first pole to cranky, irate and livid at the other pole. Similarly, the Elated-Depressed scale describes the cheery, optimistic, blissful and ecstatic emotions on one side of the pole and unhappy, forlorn and disheartened emotions on the other side. At the positive end, the Confident-Unsure scale represents confidence, boldness and forcefulness against uncertainty, and timidity. The range of the Energetic-Tired scale defines alert, vigorous and lively on one pole and tired, sluggish, drowsy on the other. The following table illustrates the Standard Deviations and Mean on the POMS-Bi for high-school students:

 

Composed

Agreeable

Elated

Confident

Energetic

Clearheaded

S.D.

5.74

6.44

6.07

5.92

7.97

6.9

Mean

21.83

25.82

24.45

24.03

21.76

22.55

The Clearhead-Confused scale characterizes efficiency, attentiveness and professionalism on one pole against confusion, uncertainty and haziness on the other. The POMS-BI was invented as one of a range of experimental researched aimed at assessing ITl00d feeling and states that were reported in psychiatric and normal outpatients. Several devices that were utilized in the clinical setting measured mainly negative effects like depression, distress, anxiety and hostile feelings. POMS BI has great applicability to normal persons as well as having psychiatric disorders. POMS uses the following principal:

(a) To recognize moods and assess them along with feelings among normal subjects;

(b) To review important mood states among outpatients suffering from psychiatric disorders for the purpose of determining their clinical status;

(c) To evaluate effectiveness and efficiency of numerous psychotropic drugs treatments for the reduction of depression, anxiety, confusion etc.

(d) To experimentally review the side effects of numerous drugs or other experimental therapies:

(e) To evaluate alterations in mood due to meditative treatment, relaxation therapy, and long and brief-term psychotherapies;

(f) To draw comparisons between several Personality Disorders highlighted in DSM III for the characterization of mood profiles,

POMS might be regulated to single people or to aggregations in light of the fact that the directions are extremely straightforward. Generally subjects complete the structure in five minutes or less. There are two manifestations of POMS-Bi, each with a dissimilar time set. One asks the subject to rate emotions at this moment. The second time set asks the subject to rate affections throughout the previous week, incorporating today. The standard specimen of psychiatric outpatients ...