Can someone offer advice on an effective psychological instrument to measure changes in positive anticipation of a recurring upcoming event? I would like to measure increases (or decreases) in positive anticipation for the upcoming treatment sessions themselves (intensity and/or frequency of this emotion). So far I am exploring work by Diener (AIM, EIS, ITAS questionnaires).
I am not sure of one, but I would be very interested in what you find. I am currently looking for an instrument to measure the willingness to participate in an exercise session and may be able to use the measure for my study.
Thank you Stacy. I will be sure to share the resulting instrument here then.
The Negative Mood Regulation Expectancy Questionnaire (NMRQ) may be of some help in this regard. This questionnaire measures the expectancy to regulate one's mood and not the actual effort or strategy to regulate mood.
You may use it directly or may do certain modification to suit your purpose.
Thank you Prof Pandey for the NMRQ reference, can you share a link or article title to this scale? I do see several references to NMR in general. And thank you Timothy Ritchie for the PSMS reference. Both of these will be helpful for this research.
Here is a link to the pdf of the paper that report the development of the Negative Mood Regulation Expectancies (NMRE) scale. It is generally referred asNMRE and not as NMRQ as stated in my earlier post.
http://www.psychwiki.com/dms/other/labgroup/MeasuresWeek1/Belen/Catanzaro%201990.pdf
Thank you again Prof Pandey. I wondered if it was the Catanzaro and Mearns paper but was unsure. Your help with the link is much appreciated.
I think that the utilization of factual thinking would be one valid option
Thank you Carlos, your suggestion has helped me realize there are additional dimensions to consider, for example, the role of predictive cognition (prior or post) on the affective state or predisposition. I am looking into your paper and others now, thank you.
I would like to thank you Timothy for these (amazingly coincidental) helps. Both your PSMS/SBI work and the Zimbardo article were what I needed to piece this together (well, hopefully). My project was about elevating the affective anticipation of paraplegic persons during the intervals between illusion therapy sessions. The role of time in consciousness is such an intrigue for research.
Based on what I am seeing, our sense of consciousness is fully amnestic, and so urgency requires we fashion meaning by prediction alone. We have a sense of our future (prescience) and one of our past (reminiscence) between which we imagine a present sense of doubtful self confirmation. Reminiscence uses a past-predictive mechanism stemming from a future sense of the past, and we project our self into the future as though it had already occurred (again, like recalling the past predictively since we only stored suggestions of the past) - to estimate what to do next. Present mindfulness seems already too late to achieve adequate acquisition of desired stimuli (because the PFC is kind of the "last to know") so the present too, is pure prediction. It seems like we are really just the convergence where our past and future approximately meet, and this predicts (within us) where and what we are. We prepare ourselves mostly by "aiming" attention in the direction most likely to fulfill expectation, and getting proximal to gain the most frequency of it (maybe a kind of intentive tropism).
This article reinforces the possibility that time approaches or departs the locus we hold dearly as ourselves; and as it departs, it hurts like any sorrow made of substance, by our measure of the worth it seemed to confer between us. Matching expectation is everything to us, because we cannot see anything we have not guessed is there to look for, already.
So positive anticipation, as a span of time we help them gain, is so valuable, to persons needing hope for tomorrow. Your sharing of these has given me even more directions to trace this research, thank you.
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