Content Dimensions of the Velten Mood Induction Procedure: Multiple Routes to Negative Mood

Researchers investigating the relationship between affect and cognition have often used mood induction procedures to manipulate mood in the laboratory. Only a few studies, however, have made an effort to examine how these induction procedures operate. Little effort has been made to investigate the processes that result in mood change. In this study the Velten Mood Induction Procedure, the most commonly used mood change technique, was separated into its two apparent dimensions (degree of self-reference and negative content) in order to test the relative importance of each dimension in producing negative mood and to explain the psychological processes which account for the procedure's mood altering effects.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Smith, James Ralph

• Psychology, Clinical

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8711880

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69686