RT Journal Article
T1 Factor structure of mood over time frames and circumstances of measurement: Two studies on the Profile of Mood States questionnaire
A1 Andrade Fernández, Elena
A1 Rodríguez Salgado, Dolores
AB This paper presents the results of two studies on the invariance of the Profile of Mood Statesquestionnaire across response time frames and circumstances of administration. Weapplied Spanish versions of the instrument to gather data from 1146 athletes. In the firststudy (N = 700), we tested the factor structure of the questionnaire in training sessions byusing two different time frames: ‘right now’ (n = 350) and ‘past week’ (n = 350). In the secondstudy (N = 446), we compared the factor structure of the questionnaire with data collectedusing the instruction ‘right now’ at two different circumstances: ‘training’ (n = 223) and ‘competition’ (n = 223). Data analysis was similar in both studies. We conducted multi-group confirmatory factor analyses and applied the scaled difference chi-square statistic to examinewhether discrepancies in successive constrained models were significant. We observedconfigural equivalence between the two time frames. Furthermore, we observed metricequivalence but not scalar invariance between the different circumstances of measurement.The findings highlight the need for studies of equivalence before using a single self-reportwith more than one set of instructions, or under diverse circumstances. Invariance of moodscores should be examined and taken into account when interpreting individual and groupmood state assessments
PB PLOS
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22199
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22199
LA eng
NO Andrade E, Rodríguez D (2018) Factor structure of mood over time frames and circumstances of measurement: Two studies on the Profile of Mood States questionnaire. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205892
NO This research was supported in part by the Galician Department of Culture, Education and Universities [grant number ED431B2016-017 (with cooperation and English style review of the manuscript under grant GPC2014-047)]. The first author belongs to the CRETUS Strategic Partnership [grant number AGRUP2015/02]. All these programmes are co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union
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