%0 Journal Article
%T The assessment of mood at workplace - psychometric analyses of the revised Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaire
%A Morfeld
%A Matthias
%A Petersen
%A Corinna
%A Kr¨¹ger-B£¿deker
%A Anja
%A von Mackensen
%A Sylvia
%J GMS Psycho-Social-Medicine
%D 2007
%I 
%X With the Profile of Mood States (POMS), a German version of an international instrument for the assessment of mood is available. The paper introduces a new short version containing 24 items and four scales. In a study about indoor climate in 4596 office workers only a few missing values were noted. Psychometric analyses showed very good characteristics of the four scales regarding their internal consistency (Cronbach¡¯s ¦Á) and scale fit. High floor effects indicated a limited exhaustion of the scale range. Age and gender effects of the scale scores concerned the scales ¡°vigour¡± and ¡°fatigue¡±. Furthermore, the scales of the POMS discriminated between groups with different self-reported disease incidences. A less beneficial characteristic of the POMS could be noted in terms of a high correlation of the scales ¡°numbness¡± and ¡°fatigue". With the tested version of the POMS, a short instrument with good psychometric properties has been presented which can be assessed in healthy as well as in health-impaired persons.
%U http://www.egms.de/en/journals/psm/2007-4/psm000038.shtml