A review of the Profile of Mood States (POMS) in the prediction of athletic success
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ABSTRACT:
The Profile of Mood States (POMS) is a self-report inventory that has been used by numerous researchers attempting to identify the personality states that reliably differentiate athletes of differing levels of ability. The paper began by reviewing the studies by Nagle, Morgan, Hellickson, Serfass, and Alexander (1975), Morgan and Pollock (1977), and Morgan and Johnson (1978). These studies popularized the use of the POMS in the sport setting. The review highlighted the fact that the POMS was originally employed as one of several psychological inventories designed to assess an athlete's state of mental health. Specifically, these studies hypothesized that successful athletes would possess more positive emotional and mental health than unsuccessful athletes. With respect to the POMS this would be reflected by successful athletes scoring lower than unsuccessful athletes on the scales of depression, tension, anger, fatigue, and confusion and higher than unsuccessful athletes on the scale of vigor. The POMS was found to be of limited value in differentiating the successful from unsuccessful athletes. Despite this fact, studies continued to be published that examined the POMS' ability to differentiate athletes of differing levels of ability. This misunderstanding is attributed to researchers' failure to distinguish between two common approaches to the study of personality in sport: the identification of personality characteristics that differentiate a) the athlete from the nonathlete and, b) athletes of differing levels of ability.
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