The phrase 'fluctuating mood' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person's changing or unsteady emotional state. For example: "John is having a difficult time coping with his fluctuating mood."
In addition, we used the short Dutch version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS) (28) to assess transient, fluctuating mood states.
It is marked by fluctuating mood swings that are often accompanied by other forms of emotional disturbance like eating disorders, severe anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorders or substance abuse.
It is difficult, in fact, to reread "Rappaccini's Daughter", with its portrait of a father ready to sacrifice his child to his intellectual egotism, and not be put in mind of something like Hawthorne's cruelly fluctuating mood swings about his own children.
In this finding also exists a confounding factor, fluctuating mood, which is one of the presymptoms of migraine that might be assessed in the outcome measure and hence be a possible confounder.
In addition, we discovered another two risk factors for depression including the family migraine history (first-degree relatives) and presymptoms of migraine (i.e., fluctuating mood, drowsiness, reduced activity, yawning).
The short Dutch version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS) [ 42] will be used to assess transient, fluctuating mood states.
Updike was a writer of fluctuating moods, and all are on display here.
You've probably experienced fluctuating moods with the seasons, but there's a good chance you never realized that your brain activity also differs based on seasonal changes -- varying between spring, summer, fall and winter -- as a new study has shown.
But in "Ike," Korda constantly keeps his subject's fluctuating moods in the forefront.
For many, his portrait in this song of fluctuating moods, from self-hatred to self-aggrandisement, exhibits the torment of depression on one hand, and the euphoria of a manic episode on the other.
By Michael Schulman December 2, 2011 Today in dubious psychological fieldwork: a study conducted by Apple and the London School of Economics, in which forty-five thousand British smart-phone usereportedtheirheir fluctuating moods via an app, found that the three activities that made people the happiest are sex, exercise, and going to the theatre.
