Title

Mood-Management Dynamics: The Interrelationship Between Moods And Behaviours

Abstract

People actively attempt to create and maintain positive moods and to escape from negative moods by engaging in various activities. The principle of homeostasis explains the essence of the mood-management system: adjustments of individuals' moods and activities help maintain constant their conditions of life. We model the dynamics of mood and mood-management behaviour through a pair of interdependent, linear differential equations and estimate the equations using mood and behaviour data collected from an adult panel. Because empirically fitting continuous-time differential equations to intermittent observations is uncommon in the literature, we show how to transform differential equations into equations that can be estimated using simultaneous-equation regression methods. Our adult panel shows strong homeostasis in mood management with mood episodes of several hours and no evidence of endogenous mood cycles. © 2006 The British Psychological Society.

Publication Date

11-1-2006

Publication Title

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volume

59

Issue

2

Number of Pages

347-378

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1348/000711005X81133

Socpus ID

33845300235 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33845300235

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