Test-Retest Reliability of the Profile of Mood States Using Visually Impaired Athletes

Abstract

The test-retest reliabilities of the Profile of Mood States when items were read aloud on consecutive days to 15 nationally ranked visually impaired athletes ranged from .78 to .95, so the scale can be used with visually impaired athletes who cannot complete the profile in the traditional written manner.

The Paralympic athlete

“…The exploration of mood states, an early technique in sports psychology, has been used to assess potential unique properties of the elite disabled-bodied athlete. 15,34,35 It has been proposed that mood states of athletes will correlate with performance in a sport. 36 This hypothesis was developed into the Profile of Mood States (POMS), which has determined a unique profile in high-achieving athletes.…”

Mood change and marathon running: A pilot study using a Swedish version of the POMS test

“…Since the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of running a marathon race, using a non-running control group would serve no purpose and add little new information, this in view of the fact that both the above mentioned studies and specifically designed test-retest studies (e.g. Mastro & French, 1987;McNair et nl., 1971) have shown that the POMS test is stable over time. Thus, it is highly Scand J Psycho1 32 ( 1991) unlikely that a non-running control group would change their mood states in such a short time period as 3-4 h, i.e.…”