On the other hand, EEG coherence is likely a more sensitive parameter, and higher values in coherence may be related to low activity, negative mood and high TONI scores of these young students.
The memory enhancement in the negative mood/low arousal state may seem counterintuitive, but this is not the first study to describe a performance benefit of this 'melancholic' state; Jefferies et al. [14] found that this combination of low arousal and negative mood improved selective attention to a rapid serial visual presentation.
As predicted, low scores on composite negative mood change were associated with an absence of analogue flashbacks with an OR of 1.72.
MANOVA results indicated that depressed mood was associated with a negative mood profile and low goal-confidence scores.
Negative compartmentalization means that an individual's negative self-aspects, attributes, and self-beliefs are important and accessible, and it results in negative mood and low self-esteem ((58); cf. (59)).
High scores for pain intensity, interference with pain, and negative mood, and low scores for life control and general activity level complete the profile of these patients in this sample (Table 2).
The Multidimensional Pain Inventory scores differed significantly between the three clusters: the patients in the dysfunctional cluster showed highest scores for pain severity, interference due to pain, and negative mood and lowest scores for general activities.
The high-severity group did not differ from the low-severity group regarding summarized negative mood scores on the CD scale (i.e. symptom scores of depression, anxiety, mood swings, and irritability) during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle but displayed higher summarized negative mood scores in the luteal phase (group × phase interaction F (1,28) = 43.46; p < 0.001).
Following a study phase of abstract shapes, we altered the emotional state of participants by means of exposure to music that varied in both mood and arousal dimensions, leading to four different emotional states: (i) positive mood-high arousal; (ii) positive mood-low arousal; (iii) negative mood-high arousal; (iv) negative mood-low arousal.
