A six-item semantic differential scale measuring a person's overall affective state at the time of assessment. Items span both valence (bad/good, sad/happy) and arousal-adjacent dimensions (uncomfortable/comfortable, bothered/calm, uneasy/laid back, tense/relaxed), measured on a 9-point bipolar format. Lisjak et al. (2015) used the scale after participants completed tasks in Experiments 1 and 2 to verify that two types of psychological threat (competence vs. integrity) did not differentially affect mood -- confirming that any differences in subsequent behaviour were not driven by mood. Source was not identified. Alpha = .91 in both experiments indicates excellent internal consistency. Notably, in Experiment 3A, the scale's items split into two unipolar sub-factors (uncomfortable/bothered/tense/uneasy vs. comfortable/calm/relaxed/laid-back, each alpha = .94), suggesting that the bipolar format may conflate distinct positive and negative arousal dimensions.
Lisjak, M., Bonezzi, A., Kim, S., & Rucker, D. D. (2015). Perils of compensatory consumption: Within-domain compensation undermines subsequent self-regulation. Journal of Consumer Research, 41(5), 1186–1203.
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