A mood journal is similar ... Do your emotional responses match with the circumstances that caused them? Consider the scale of your response, too. It may help to consider what you’d tell ...

We used the Bond-Lader Visual Analogue Mood Scale (Bond & Lader, 1974). Participants completed 16 questions which provided three overall mood scores: alertness, contentedness, and calmness.

Data from 845 screenings (433 female and 412 male athletes) were reviewed. Population specific tables of normative data were established for the Brunel mood scale and the perceived stress scale.