Revised Short Screening Version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS) From the German General Population

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of constructing and validating a short form of the Profile of Mood States (POMS). The POMS is a widely-applied measure for the assessment of an individual's mood. Thus, it is of great relevance for many research questions in clinical and social psychology. To develop the short scale, we first examined psychometric properties and found the optimal 16-item solution among all valid combinations of the full POMS in an exploratory subsample (n = 1,029) of our complete representative sample of the German general population. We then validated this model in a confirmatory subsample (n = 977). Additionally, we examined its invariance across age groups and sex, as well as its reliability. Our results indicate that the POMS-16 is a valid and reliable measure of mood states with minimal losses compared to the 35-item version. Particularly where brevity and an economical assessment is desired, the POMS-16 should be considered.

Effect of Judo Athletes’ Psychological Function on Sports Coping Skills: Moderated Mediating Effect of Tension

“…The POMS was used to measure an individual’s temporary mood state [ 14 , 15 ] ( Table 2 ). Six factors, namely tension, depression, anger, vitality, fatigue, and confusion, were measured, and a total of 65 questions, composed of adjectives expressing mood, were answered on a 5-point Likert scale (0: not at all; 4: very much).…”

Continuity and Discontinuity of Sport and Exercise Type During the COVID-19 Pandemic. An Exploratory Study of Effects on Mood

“…Selected items from the Profile of Mood Scale (POMS) (McNair et al, 1971) were used for measuring our study participants' general mood state during the lockdown. The 16-item version of POMS used in the present study is based on a German short screening version (Petrowski et al, 2020), which has been psychometrically tested in a large, representative German sample (list of items available upon request from the corresponding author of this article). German items were matched with the English items as accurately as possible by Brand et al (2020), and then translated to Finnish by authors 1-3 of the present study.…”

Relationship between sleep quality, mood state, and performance of elite air-rifle shooters

“…Data including age and gender as well as sleep diary information were collected from at least two completed national competitions. Sleep quality was evaluated using the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) scale [ 13 ], mood state was evaluated using the Profile of Mood State (POMS) scale [ 14 ], and competition performance was evaluated by recording the number of rings.…”

“…It is a concise alternative and brief but accurate measure of the mood of athletes. The POMS-short form [ 14 ] and the Chinese norm were used to evaluate the mood of the athletes at the various stages. There are 40 questions in the short form of POMS and each answer is scored on a scale of 0–4.…”