I want a very short and easy measurement of 'in the moment' mood. The I-PANAS-SF looks the best for what I am looking for - but I'd like to find an even more abbreviated version - maybe 5 questions for each affect?
There are two papers to check out - Edmund Thompson's paper entitled "DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF AN INTERNATIONALLY
RELIABLE SHORT-FORM OF THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE
AFFECT SCHEDULE (PANAS)" from 2007.(journal = Personality and Individual Differences).
and this paper by MacKinnon et al. (1999). A short form of the Positive and Negative A}ect Schedule: evaluation of factorial validity and invariance across demographic variables in a community sample