Visual Analogue Mood Scales (VAMS)
Psychology: Mental Health1 sample item
About this scale
Lots of psychological questionnaires and scales have many questions, but some have one or just a few. Visual Analogy Mood scales are commonly used and have a long history, although their data are not always well reported. One of the clearest recent reports is a study by Machado, Thompson, and Brett (2019) , but there are many others (just randomly, see Killgore (1999) or Rijsbergen et al. (2012) .
Sample item(s)
“Survey code includes 6 item lines. Open PsyToolkit to review wording and permissions.”
Notes
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Source & citation
Killgore, W.D.S. (1999). The visual analogue mood scale: Can a single-item scale accurately classify depressive mood state? | Machado, L., Thompson, L.M., and Brett, C.H.R. (2019). Visual analogue mood scale scores in healthy young versus older adults. International Psychogeriatrics, 31(3) ,417-424. Link to publisher | van Rijsbergen, G.D., Bockting, C.L., Berking, M., Koeter, M.W.J., & Schene, A.H. (2012). Can a One-Item Mood Scale Do the Trick? Predicting Relapse over 5.5-Years in Recurrent Depression. _Plos One, 7(10), e46796. Open Access Link to article .
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