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  • 1.  any scale or measurement to make self report of emotion more reliable

    Posted 09-07-2009 20:22
    Dear All,

    I am writing a paper on how emotion will affect decision making by experiements. I plan to use self report PANAS to measure the emotion status of the subject. To make the result more reliable, is there any scale or measurement can be used to make self report more reliable? For example, asking the third party around subject such as subject's colleagues, family member etc. to report the emotion status of the subject. Or any other means can be used to make self report more reliable? Your suggestion will be very welcome.

    Thank you again and hope you can help me.

    Weichu Xu
    Ph.D students


  • 2.  any scale or measurement to make self report of emotion more reliable

    Posted 09-08-2009 00:08

    Dear Weichu,

    Bartel and Saavedra (2000) developed an instrument for observers to rate the mood of work groups with facial, vocal and postural indicators. They found, though, that observers were more accurate in assessing groups' highly activated moods (which include high PA and high NA) than moods of low activation. You may be able to use this instrument for reliability, but some would suggest (e.g., Barsade, 2002) that self-report and observer-report tap into different dimensions of emotional experience (internal feeling states and external expression) that do not always match. Research on emotional labor, for example, demonstrates that the emotions one expresses are not always the emotions one is feeling.

    Barsade, S. (2002). The ripple effects: Emotional contagion and its influence on group behavior. Administrative Science Quarterly, 47, 644-675.
     
    Bartel, C., & Saavedra, R. (2000). The collective construction of work group moods. Administrative Science Quarterly, 45, 197-231.
     
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    Michael G. Foster School of Business
    University of Washington
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    >
    > Dear All,
    >
    > I am writing a paper on how emotion will affect decision
    > making by experiements. I plan to use self report PANAS to
    > measure the emotion status of the subject. To make the result
    > more reliable, is there any scale or measurement can be used
    > to make self report more reliable? For example, asking the
    > third party around subject such as subject's colleagues,
    > family member etc. to report the emotion status of the
    > subject. Or any other means can be used to make self report
    > more reliable? Your suggestion will be very welcome.
    >
    > Thank you again and hope you can help me.
    >
    > Weichu Xu
    > Ph.D students
    >