Want to use a brief daily measure of mood for an app - but want it to be validated. SF-PANAS is good, but ideally want shorter than that if possible! Any format fine (Likert, VAS etc). Not looking for it to be related to any other behaviours e.g. Physical Activity Affect Scale. Thanks in advance!!
Maybe you can use the MDBF?
Wilhelm & Schoebi (2007): DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759.23.4.258
What about UMACL by G. Mathews, A.G. Chamberlain, D.M. Jones? Unfortunately it is longer than 7 items...
If you decide you are willing to go a bit longer than 7, colleagues & I have successfully used the 10-item affect measure by Csikszentmihalyi & Larson in a daily study and it's not uncommon in such frequency studies (e.g., experience sampling methodology). If interested the following could provide you with more info on it, its usage in such studies, & its psychometric support -
Culbertson, S. S., Mills, M. J., & Fullagar, C. J. (2012). Work engagement and work-family facilitation: Making homes happier through positive affective spillover. Human Relations, 65, 1155-1177.
Csikszentmihalyi M and Larson R (1987) Validity and reliability of the experience-sampling method. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 175(9): 526–536.
Fullagar C and Kelloway E K (2009) ‘Flow’ at work: An experience sampling approach. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 82(3): 595–615
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