AUTHOR=Quartiroli Alessandro , Parsons-Smith Renée L. , Fogarty Gerard J. , Kuan Garry , Terry Peter C. 

TITLE=Cross-Cultural Validation of Mood Profile Clusters in a Sport and Exercise Context

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=9

YEAR=2018

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01949

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01949

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>Mood profiling has a long history in the field of sport and exercise. Several novel mood profile clusters were identified and described in the literature recently (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B22">Parsons-Smith et al., 2017</xref>). In the present study, we investigated whether the same clusters were evident in an Italian-language, sport and exercise context. The Italian Mood Scale (ITAMS; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">Quartiroli et al., 2017</xref>) was administered to 950 Italian-speaking sport participants (659 females, 284 males, 7 unspecified; age range = 16–63 year, <italic>M</italic> = 25.03, <italic>SD</italic> = 7.62) and seeded <italic>k</italic>-means clustering methodology applied to the responses. Six distinct mood profiles were identified, termed the iceberg, inverse iceberg, inverse Everest, shark fin, surface, and submerged profiles, which closely resembled those reported among English-speaking participants (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B22">Parsons-Smith et al., 2017</xref>). Significant differences were found in the distribution of specific mood profiles across gender and age groups. Findings supported the cross-cultural generalizability of the six mood profiles and offer new research avenues into their antecedents, correlates and behavioral consequences in Italian-language contexts.</p>