Measurement of Affect, Mood, and Emotion - A Guide for Health-Behavioral Research

Informationen zum Autor Panteleimon Ekkekakis is Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Iowa State University. Klappentext Panteleimon Ekkekakis provides an accessible guidebook which clarifies theory and proposes a sound system for selecting measures for affective constructs. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Panteleimon Ekkekakis, Panteleimon (Iowa State University) Ekkekakis, Ekkekakis Panteleimon
• Assisted by: Russell James A. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2013
• EAN: 9781107011007
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01100-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Epidemiology & medical statistics, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Clinical psychology, Health psychology, Social, group or collective psychology