While information systems (IS) research has looked at possible factors and conditions which lead to optimal performance using technology, limited attention has been paid to the possible impact of mood states. Existing literature from the field of psychology and other applied disciplines indicate that positive mood states have the potential to promote attention and interest as well as encourage ...

Objective: The COVID-19 disease and related restrictive measures such as quarantine have affected many aspects in human life, including physical activity mood. present study aims to investigate mental states of athletes racket sports during general due the pandemic. Methods: This is a descriptive correlational study. participants were 196 (123 males 73 females). Their was measured by Cho’s 5-it...

purpose :   the present study investigated the psychometric properties of a malaysian adapted brunel mood scale.   methods:   the questionnaire was administered to 355 young sport athletes with a mean age of 14.69 + 1.70 years. confirmatory factor analysis (cfa) and cronbach's alpha were used to determine the factorial validity and the internal consistency of the questionnaire respectively. res...

OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that fibromyalgia (FM) patients would report lower levels of psychological control mechanisms and that higher levels of control would moderate key symptoms associated with FM, such as pain, fatigue, perceived stress, and mood disturbance. METHODS Ninety-eight women with FM diagnosed according to American College of Rheumatology criteria and 35 matched pain-free women...

Introduction Mood and emotion research in sport psychology is typically conducted using singleadjective checklists such as the Profile of Mood States. A limitation of single adjective checklists is that they assess the intensity of the affective response but not the context, and thus cannot reliably distinguish mood from emotion. Recent research has emphasized the importance of distinguishing m...

It is controversial whether mood affects cognition by triggering specific processing strategies or by limiting processing resources. The current event-related potential (ERP) study pursued this issue by examining how mood modulates the processing of task relevant/irrelevant information. In question-answer pairs, a question context marked a critical word in the answer sentence as focus (and thus...

OBJECTIVES Parkinson's disease (PD) is associated with motor fluctuations that have been shown to improve when stable plasma levodopa levels are achieved with continuous levodopa infusions. Many patients also develop mood fluctuations. In this pilot study, we gathered preliminary information about the relationship between changing mood states and plasma levodopa levels. METHODS Six patients w...

The challenges of providing exemplary undergraduate nursing education cannot be underestimated in an era when burnout and negative mood states predictably lead to alarming rates of academic as well as career attrition. While the multi-dimensional nature of this complex issue has been extensively elucidated, few rational strategies exist to reverse a disheartening trend recognizable early in the...

This study explored the influence of adolescent mood variability on the symptom development of generalized anxiety and depression in the context of parent-adolescent negative interactions. Participants were 456 adolescents (55.7 % male) from a community sample, who were followed from age 13 to 16 years. During 4 annual assessments, adolescents reported on their generalized anxiety and depressiv...