Beschreibung:
The present study was conducted with the aim of constructing and validating a shortform of the Profile of Mood States (POMS). The POMS is a widely-applied measurefor the assessment of an individual’s mood. Thus, it is of great relevance for manyresearch questions in clinical and social psychology. To develop the short scale, we firstexamined psychometric properties and found the optimal 16-itemsolution among all validcombinations of the full POMS in an exploratory subsample (n = 1,029) of our completerepresentative sample of the German general population. We then validated this modelin a confirmatory subsample (n = 977). Additionally, we examined its invariance acrossage groups and sex, as well as its reliability. Our results indicate that the POMS-16is a valid and reliable measure of mood states with minimal losses compared to the35-item version. Particularly where brevity and an economical assessment is desired,the POMS-16 should be considered.