About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing |
| Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 |
| Subscales | Anger; Happiness; Sadness; Fear |
| Description | A brief mood measure consisting of four scales; anger, happiness, sadness and fear. |
| Example | I feel frightened |
| Link | http://www.redalyc.org/html/727/72726347016/ |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 16 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 8-14 |
| Cost single purchase | Available in jou |
| Cost per child | Available in jou |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .70-.85 |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | 4-factor orthogo |
| CFA | 4-factor model Chi-square(98)=379.62 NFI=.94 CFI=.96 IFI=.96 RMSEA=.04 |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Emotion Awareness Questionnaire differentiating emotions subscale correlated with MOOD sadness subscale, r= -.26, fear subscale, r= -.23, anger subscale, r= -.19 and happiness subscale, r= -.28; Somatic complaints correlated with MOOD sadness subscale, r= .49, fear subscale, r= .44, anger subscale, r=.42 and happiness subscale, r= -.28 |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Plumed, A. B. G., Prado-Gascó, V. J., Badenes, L. V., López, A. O., & Barrón, R. G. (2013). The MOOD questionnaire: Adaptation and validation of the Spanish version. Psicothema, 25, 252-257. doi:10.7334/psicothema2012.201 Rieffe, C., Terwogt, M. M., & Bosch, J. D. (2004). Emotion understanding in children with frequent somatic complaints. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1(1), 31-47. doi:10.1080/17405620344000013 |