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French Adaptation of the Shortened Version of the Profile of Mood States
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The French adaptation and validation of the short version of the Profile of Mood States is examined. A sample of 110 women diagnosed with breast cancer and 50 men with prostate cancer were administered the French Canadian adaptation of the shortened version of the profile (37 items). Means, test-retest correlations, and internal consistency coefficients (alpha) replicated the English initial validation. These results support the reliability of the French Canadian version. In addition, significant decrease from initial to retest testing for Anxiety, Depression, and Confusion subscales also supported construct validity.
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Mood was assessed using an abbreviated version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS), and the French version replicated the English initial validation.
“The mood was evaluated at the beginning of both sessions using an abbreviated version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS) [44]. French version replicated the English initial validation [45].”
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“The emotional quality of life was assessed using the Vigour/Activity subscale (six items) of the Shortened Profile of Mood States (POMS-37) [47,48].”
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“…questionnaires were filled retrospectively at the end of the test day, featuring Q6: the Profile Of Mood States (POMS), a French adaptation (Fillion and Gagnon 1999) of the abridged profile of mood states by Shacham (1983), Q7: the Questionnaire de Douleur de Saint-Antoine (QDSA), a…”
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“Anger was assessed by the Profile of Mood State (POMS) subscale (7 items on a scale of 0–4) [13,42].”
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“…has already been translated into many languages, including Arabic (Ahmad, 2002), Chinese (Cheung, 1999), Dutch (Wald & Mellenbergh, 1990), French (Fillion & Gagnon, 1999), German (Bullinger, Heinisch, Ludwig, & Geier, 1990), Korean (Shin & Colling, 2000) and Spanish (Arce-Fernandez,…”
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“Typically, the subsets were derived either by dropping items that had low factor loadings or dropping items that would improve the internal consistency reliability of a subscale (8-10,12,13,27-31).”
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“Thirteen standardized and French validated scales [44–70] were used to assess variables.”
MethodFarhani, Z., Ghouili, H., Dhahbi, W., Ammar, A., Aissa, M. B., Bouzouraa, M. M., Trabelsi, K., Guelmami, N., Souissi, N., Dergaa, I., et al. (2025) · European Journal of Sport Science · doi:10.1002/ejsc.12208 · Cited by 29
“Mood state was measured using the French–Canadian version of the POMS developed by Shacham (1983) and translated by Fillion and Gagnon (Fillion et al., 1999).”
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“Psychological distress was assessed using the French-Canadian adaptation (20) of the shortened version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS) (21).”
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“Many studies using the POMS have provided crosscultural validation, in languages including German [13], Dutch [14], Spanish [15], French [16], Korean [17], Portuguese [18], Chinese [19], and Hebrew [20], among others.”
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“This questionnaire has been translated and validated in multiple languages (French (Fillion and Gagnon, 1999), Dutch (Wald and Mellenbergh, 1990), English (Terry et al ., 2003)).”
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“Limited validation research has been conducted to assess the psychometric properties of some of the reduced or adapted POMS instruments; no extensive validation research has been conducted on any one version.(19-21)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fillion, L., & Gagnon, P.
- Affiliations
- York University (CA)
- Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Fillion, L.
- Venue
- Psychological Reports
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1999-02
- Volume
- 84
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 188-190
- ISSN
- 0033-2941 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-691X
- OpenAlex
- W2008222834
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Reports (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- Profile of Mood States, French adaptation, psychometric validation, reliability statistics, construct validity, test-retest reliability, internal consistency, anxiety, depression, confusion, breast cancer, prostate cancer, mood states
- MeSH terms
- Female, France, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Psychological Tests, Reproducibility of Results, Mood Disorders
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