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A Joy Scale was constructed of items which describe the phenomenology of joy. Each of 333 Ss was asked to describe a specific instance of joy he had experienced and then to fill out the Joy Scale and the Mood Adjective Check List. A factor analysis of the correlations among items on the Joy Scale was done in order to ascertain whether the hypothesized factors expressing various phenomenological dimensions of joy would be confirmed. The correlations between the Central Joy score and a measure of the Dimensions of Emotion identified the specific aspects of the emotion process, such as pleasantness or activation, that were dominant in the affect of joy. Finally, a factor analysis of the Mood Adjective Check List data, which was produced when it was administered under the “joy” condition, demonstrated that Nowlis' original factors were altered appreciably when the instrument was filled out in an almost exclusively positive affective situation.

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The Phenomenology of Joy,an Empirical Investigation

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