Profile of mood states

The Profile of Mood States (POMS) is a psychological rating scale used to assess transient, distinct mood states.

Profile of Mood States - long form

The long form of the POMS consists of 65 adjectives that are rated by subjects on a 5-point scale. Six factors have been derived from this:

POMS Standard

tension-anxiety

depression-dejection

anger-hostility

fatigue-inertia

vigor-activity

confusion-bewilderment

POMS

POMS or Profile of Mood States measures affective mood states and uses three tests to meausure and identitfy them

• POMS Standard
• POMS Brief
• POMS Bipolar^[1]

References

POMS Overview

Further reading

• Pollock, Vicki; Cho, Dong W.; Reker, Dean; Volavka, JAN (1979). "Profile of Mood States: the Factors and Their Physiological Correlates". The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 167 (10): 612–4. doi:10.1097/00005053-197910000-00004. PMID 226658. 
• Yokoyama, K; Araki, S; Kawakami, N; Tkakeshita, T (1990). "[Production of the Japanese edition of profile of mood states (POMS): assessment of reliability and validity]" (in Japanese). Nippon koshu eisei zasshi [Japanese journal of public health] 37 (11): 913–8. PMID 2132363. 
• Morfeld, Matthias; Petersen, Corinna; Krüger-Bödeker, Anja; von Mackensen, Sylvia; Bullinger, Monika (2007). "The assessment of mood at workplace - psychometric analyses of the revised Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaire". Psycho-social medicine 4: Doc06. PMC 2736534. PMID 19742299. http://www.egms.de/en/journals/psm/2007-4/psm000038.shtml.