Hi Xiaoping,
Feldman Barrett and Russell's (1998) Current Mood Questionnaire assesses arousal with two different statement measures and one adjectival measure. The two statement measures are largely redundant, so I only use one of them.
One of the arousal statement measures includes seven items on which participants indicate the degree to which they think the statement describes them: (a) "I'm full of energy and tension," (b) "I'm keyed up," (c) "I am stirred up," (d) "I'm feeling placid, low in energy" (reverse coded), (e) "My internal engine is running slow and smoothly" (reverse coded), (f) My body is in a quiet, still state" (reverse coded), and (g) "My mind and body are resting, near sleep" (reverse coded). Responses are given on a five-point scale from "Describes me not at all," to "Describes me very well." The arousal adjective scale contains six words on which participants indicate the degree to which they are feeling them at the moment: (a) aroused, (b) alert, (c) activated, (d) sleepy (reverse coded), (e) still (reverse coded), and (f) quiet (reverse coded). Responses are given on a five-point scale from "Not at all" to "Extremely."
Feldman Barrett, L., & Russell, J. A. (1998). Independence and bipolarity in the structure of current affect. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 74, 967-984.
Michael Johnson
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
The Boeing Company Professor of Business Management
Foster School of Business, University of Washington
544 Paccar Hall, Box 353226
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 616-2756
mdj3@uw.edu
Greetings,
I hope to measure indiviual arousal and/or affective activation by survey. I wonder if any of you can give me some leads on survey-based measures of individual arousal and/or affective activation.
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Xiaoping Zhao
------------
Assistant Professor in Management
Department of Management & Organization
Antai College of Economics and Management
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
http://www.acem.sjtu.edu.cn/en/faculty/zhaoxiaoping.html