Polish Students Are Feeling Better and Better. A Research Report

• Authors: Aneta Przepiorka , Agata Błachnio
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study aimed to test how Polish students assess their average mood. The research was based on American and Polish studies conducted several years ago. In the U.S. study, students rated their mood as better than usual, while the Polish students in the 1990s rated theirs as worse than usual. Participants in our study were 82 people (mean age M = 20 years, SD = 1.21). For 30 consecutive days they rated their mood using a 7-point scale. It turned out that the participants tended to rate their mood on a given day as the same as the average one. These results are different from those obtained for Polish students several years ago.

Keywords

EN

mood; Poland; students

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 214-216

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-05-22

Contributors

author

Aneta Przepiorka

• The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Institute of Psychology, Al. Raclawickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland

author

Agata Błachnio

• The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Institute of Psychology, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2015-0028