Mood and personality

A search for the causal relationship1

Bibliographic Data

ID19280313
AuthorsBill Underwood (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author), William J Froming (University of Florida), Bert S Moore (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Year1980
Volume48
Issue1
Pages15-23
Publication date1980-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Personality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-6494.1980.tb00962.x
OpenAlexW2064948264
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited11

Previous findings of correlations between mood and personality variables were noted. It was suggested that the establishment of a causal relationship was crucially important, not merely to the understanding of how mood is related to personality but to the conceptualization of mood as a source of error in personality measurement as well. A prior attempt to establish a causal role for mood failed, but may have done so for methodological reasons. The present study investigated the influence of a mood manipulation on personality measures. There was also an opportunity to replicate prior correlational findings independent of the effect of the mood manipulation. College students were asked to think of happy, sad, or affectively neutral events and then filled out several personality measures. A manipulation check confirmed that different moods were induced by this procedure. The prior correlations between mood and personality variables were replicated, but the mood manipulation did not affect any of the personality measures. The implications of these results for personality measurement and for the relation between mood and behavior were discussed

Cognitive psychology · Mood · Personality · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Mental Health Research Topics · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychology · Social Psychology

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