Research article summary (published 29 Nov 2002):

Experiencing activation: energetic arousal and tense arousal are not mixtures of valence and activation.

Full Abstract

R. E. Thayer (1989) proposed 2 types of activation:
energetic arousal (awake-tired) and tense arousal (tense-calm). This view has been challenged by claims that energetic arousal and tense arousal are mixtures of valence and a single activation dimension. The authors present a direct test of this hypothesis by computing the correlation between the residuals of energetic arousal and tense arousal after removing the shared variance with valence. Whereas the valence activation hypothesis predicts a strong positive correlation between the 2 residuals, the authors found that it was not significantly different from 0. This finding reaffirms the view of energetic arousal and tense arousal as 2 distinct types of activation.

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Author information

Author/s: Schimmack, Ulrich (U); Reisenzein, Rainer (R);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. uli.schimmack@utoronto.ca

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Emotion (Washington, D.C.) (Emotion), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Dec; vol 2 (issue 4) : pp 412-7

Dates: Created 2003/08/05; Completed 2003/10/27; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12899373, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

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Adult Anxiety - psychology Arousal - classification Awareness Female Humans Male

Male Models, Psychological Models, Statistical Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data Psychometrics Students - psychology Wakefulness

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