AUTHOR=Han Christie S. Y. , Parsons-Smith Renée L. , Terry Peter C. 

TITLE=Mood Profiling in Singapore: Cross-Cultural Validation and Potential Applications of Mood Profile Clusters

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=11

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00665

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00665

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>Mood profiling is a popular method of quantifying and classifying feeling states. Previous research has identified several novel mood profiles in predominantly Western English-speaking populations (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B22">Parsons-Smith et al., 2017</xref>), and replicated the findings in the domain of sport and exercise (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B24">Quartiroli et al., 2018</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B37">Terry and Parsons-Smith, 2019</xref>). The aim of the current study was to investigate if six hypothesized clusters of mood responses were evident in a population of English-speaking sport and non-sport participants in Singapore. A seeded k-means cluster analysis was applied to the mood responses of 1,444 participants (991 male, 440 female, 13 unspecified; aged 18–65 years) who completed the Brunel Mood Scale (BRUMS; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B36">Terry et al., 1999</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B34">2003a</xref>). The six hypothesized mood profiles (i.e., iceberg, inverse Everest, inverse iceberg, shark fin, submerged, and surface profiles) were identified clearly. Chi-squared analyses showed unequal distribution of the profiles by gender, age group, ethnicity, education level, and sport participation. Findings support the cross-cultural generalizability of the six mood profiles in English-speaking sport and non-sport samples in Singapore and contribute to investigation into the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of each mood profile.</p>