Velten and musical mood induction procedures: A comparison with accessibility of thought associations

Trait anxiety and pessimistic appraisal of risk and chance

“…There is the possibility that the induced affect might have lasted even shorter than the estimated minimum of 15 min. Yet, in the light of the findings of Albersnagel (1988) and Shapiro and Lim (1989), this is very unlikely. So, the problem is perhaps the use of a nonverbal mood-induction procedure because all three studies that could show that even slight changes in affective state result in respective changes in the appraisal of subjective probabilities (i.e.…”

“…Whereas these nil findings of course do not indicate that state anxiety is less relevant compared to trait anxiety or even irrelevant, they nevertheless deserve some consideration. Although the musical mood-induction technique of Albersnagel (1988) resulted in significant mood changes in the intended direction, the effects were of only moderate size --especially when compared to nonexperimental, naturally occurring variations in state-anxiety in the face of an important exam (cf. Butler & Mathews, 1987) --and did not last past the text-completion task.…”

“…In order to avoid demand effects with respect to the experimental manipulation of state anxiety, a nonverbal procedure was decided for, namely the musical mood-induction procedure by Albersnagel (1988). In this study, Albersnagel had demonstrated that music alone could induce different moods with differential reliability.…”

Inducing changes in arousal and valence: Comparison of two mood induction procedures

“…Nevertheless, some studies have compared the effectiveness of two or more MIPs on the induction of positive and negative moods, with somewhat inconsistent results (e.g., Albersnagel, 1988;Chartier & Ranieri, 1989;Clark, 1983;Isen & Gorgoglione, 1983). In their meta-analysis, Westermann et al (1996) showed that even if most of the MIPs produced genuine changes in participants' mood after induction, they were not equally effective in inducing positive or negative mood states.…”

Testing the Hypothesis of a Circadian Phase Disturbance Underlying Depressive Mood in Nonseasonal Depression

“…The Dutch version of Von Zerssen's AMS (Von Zerssen, 1976;Elsenga, 1988), which measures depressed mood; the ActivationDeactivation Adjective Checklist (Thayer, 1967), which measures four components of activation (energy, tension, calmness, and tiredness); the Stanford Sleepiness Scale (Hoddes et al, 1973); and a Visual Analog Scale (VAS), which measures depressed mood, anger, anxiety, and elation (Albersnagel, 1988), were completed three times daily at 9:00, 17:00, and 22:00 h. The Sleep Quality Scale (Mulder-Hajonides v.d. Meulen et al 1980) was completed daily at 9:00 h. Depressed mood also was assessed with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (Beck and Steer, 1987) on the mornings of Day 1 (the first day of EL and last day before ML) and Day 4 (the first day after EL and last Gordijn et al / NONSEASONAL DEPRESSION 135 day of ML) of each experimental week and on the morning of the first day of Week 6.…”