Evaluating Mood and Arousal with UMACL

The Japanese version of the UMACL was used to evaluate the mood of comfort [23 ]. The original checklist, developed by Matthews et al., was created based on dimension theory, making it possible to assess arousal levels [24 (link)]. The scale has two subscales that can be used to evaluate energetic arousal (10 items; vigorous vs. tired: coefficient α = 0.79) and tense arousal (10 items; nervous vs. relaxed: coefficient α = 0.76) [25 ]. High energetic arousal represents active and happy, whereas low tense arousal represents calm and quiet. Participants were asked to respond on a 4-point Likert scale. In a previous study, the mean energetic arousal was 24.4 (standard deviation [SD]: 0.5) for males and 24.4 (SD: 0.4) for females, and the mean tense arousal was 18.5 (SD: 0.4) for males and 17.56 (SD: 0.3) for females [25 ].

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Hasuo H., Kusaka N., Sano M., Kanbara K., Kitawaki T., Sakuma H., Sakazaki T., Yoshida K., Shizuma H., Araki H., Suzuki M., Nishiguchi S., Shuzo M., Masuda G., Shimonishi K., Kondo K., Ueda H, & Nakamura Y. (2023). Effects of eating together online on autonomic nervous system functions: a randomized, open-label, controlled preliminary study among healthy volunteers. BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 17, 10.

Publication 2023

Arousal Females Japanese Males Mood Nervous

Corresponding Organization : Kansai Medical University

Other organizations : Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Osaka Institute of Technology, Kagawa University, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Kyoto University

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Energetic arousal (10 items; vigorous vs. tired)
Tense arousal (10 items; nervous vs. relaxed)

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Participants responded on a 4-point Likert scale

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