Five mood thermometers were developed for measuring self-reported tension, confusion, anger, fatigue, and depression among adolescents by using numerical estimation to create adjectives and then subjecting the results to Thurstone scaling. Use of the instrument three times in an exercise study along with the Profile of Mood States provided data for intercorrelations and factor analyses yielding evidence of the reliability and validity of the thermometers as a measure of mood state.
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