Measuring Happiness and Mood

September 19, 2008

This is a quick post to request help/references. I’ve decided to add an emotional dimension to my self-measurement experiments. I’m currently measuring mood on a 1-5 scale. There is a lot of social science research on measuring mood. I’ll post some pointers in the next few days. But if others are measuring mood I’d be interested in hearing what scale you are using. Are you measuring general mood or are you analyzing mood into component feelings?

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