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Emotions may be described either as discrete emotions or in dimensional terms. The Motivational State Questionnaire (MSQ) was developed to study emotions in laboratory and field settings. The data can be well described in terms of a two dimensional solution of energy vs tiredness and tension versus calmness. Additional items include what time of day the data were collected and a few personality questionnaire scores.
data(msq)
A data frame with 3896 observations on the following 92 variables.
MSQ_Time
active
afraid
alert
alone
angry
aroused
ashamed
astonished
at-ease
at-rest
attentive
blue
bored
calm
clutched-up
confident
content
delighted
depressed
determined
distressed
drowsy
dull
elated
energetic
enthusiastic
excited
fearful
frustrated
full-of-pep
gloomy
grouchy
guilty
happy
hostile
inspired
intense
interested
irritable
jittery
kindly
lively
lonely
nervous
placid
pleased
proud
quiescent
quiet
relaxed
sad
satisfied
scared
scornful
serene
sleepy
sluggish
sociable
sorry
still
strong
surprised
tense
tired
unhappy
upset
vigorous
wakeful
warmhearted
wide-awake
anxious
idle
cheerful
inactive
tranquil
EA
TA
PA
NegAff
Extraversion
Neuroticism
Lie
Sociability
Impulsivity
MSQ_Round
scale
msq
r
original or revised msqID
exper
AGES
BING
BORN
CART
CITY
COPE
EMIT
FAST
Fern
FILM
FLAT
Gray
imps
item
knob
MAPS
mite
pat-1
pat-2
PATS
post
RAFT
Rim.1
Rim.2
rob-1
rob-2
ROG1
ROG2
SALT
sam-1
sam-2
SAVE/PATS
sett
swam
swam-2
TIME
VALE-1
VALE-2
VIEW
condition
TOD
TOD24
The Motivational States Questionnaire (MSQ) is composed of 72 items, which represent the full affective range (Revelle & Anderson, 1996). The MSQ consists of 20 items taken from the Activation-Deactivation Adjective Check List (Thayer, 1986), 18 from the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS, Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988) along with the items used by Larsen and Diener (1992). The response format was a four-point scale that corresponds to Russell and Carroll's (1999) "ambiguous–likely-unipolar format" and that asks the respondents to indicate their current standing (``at this moment") with the following rating scale:
0—————-1—————-2—————-3
Not at all A little Moderately Very much
The original version of the MSQ included 70 items. Intermediate analyses (done with 1840 subjects) demonstrated a concentration of items in some sections of the two dimensional space, and a paucity of items in others. To begin correcting this, 3 items from redundantly measured sections (alone, kindly, scornful) were removed, and 5 new ones (anxious, cheerful, idle, inactive, and tranquil) were added. Thus, the correlation matrix is missing the correlations between items 5, 42, and 55 and 72-76.
Procedure. The data were collected over nine years, as part of a series of studies examining the effects of personality and situational factors on motivational state and subsequent cognitive performance. In each of 38 studies, prior to any manipulation of motivational state, participants signed a consent form and filled out the MSQ. (The procedures of the individual studies are irrelevant to this data set and could not affect the responses to the MSQ, since this instrument was completed before any further instructions or tasks).
In addition to the MSQ, there are 5 scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory.
Data collecte at the Personality, Motivation, and Cognition Laboratory, Northwestern University.
William Revelle and Kristen Joan Anderson (1997) Personality, motivation and cognitive performance: Final report to the Army Research Institute on contract MDA 903-93-K-0008
Rafaeli, Eshkol and Revelle, William (2006), A premature consensus: Are happiness and sadness truly opposite affects? Motivation and Emotion, 30, 1, 1-12.
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