Positive Mood Enhancement among Persons with Varied Affect States
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Positive and Negative affect states are critical in the development of the human psychological mind and adaptation. For many decades, researchers and practitioners have been trying to induce emotions through various mood induction methods among the clinical and non-clinical populations. Subjective mood ratings are affected when experimental conditions are being applied with the help of mood induction methods. A sample of 300 college-going students from the Delhi-NCR region was categorized into three groups on the basis of PANAS-SF scale. The present study has been conducted to observe the effect of different mood induction methods (autobiographical recall method, mood self-referencing statements method and video induction method) to enhance the positive affect. The mean age of the research subjects was 22.28 years and the standard deviation was 2.89. A 3*3 factorial design repeated measure on the second factor was used. ANCOVA suitable to the design was applied to analyse the scores of subjective mood ratings. Subject mood ratings before the induction were taken as a covariate, hence adjusted. The results indicated that all mood induction methods were effective and enhanced positive affect among the research subjects. However, the persons with different affect states were affected differently i.e., the group effect was significant. Subjects having a negative affect on PANAS were benefited the most.
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