01510nas a2200217   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653003000118653001800148653001600166653001300182100001600195700002000211700002800231245007800259300001000337490000700347520091000354022001401264020001401278       2014                            d  c01/2014bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aScale for Mood Assessment10apsychometrics10aReliability10aValidity1 aJesús Sanz1 aSara Gutiérrez1 aMaría Paz García-Vera00aPsychometric properties of the Scale for Mood Assessment (EVEA): A review  a27-490 v203 aThis study was aimed at reviewing the psychometric properties of the Scale for Mood Assessment (Escala de Valoración del Estado de Animo; EVEA). After analyzing the results of 27 studies that have used the EVEA to measure transitory moods of sadness-depression, anxiety, anger-hostility or happiness, it may be concluded that the psychometric properties of the EVEA are good or excellent with respect to Us indices of: (a) internal consistency reliability: (b) convergent validity with other instruments that measure anxiety, depression, positive affect or negative affect: (c) discriminant validity to distinguish among different negative moods and between these moods and positive moods: (d) criterion validity to distinguish patients with and without psychological disorders; (e) factorial validity, and (f) sensitivity to detect changes in mood after the administration of a mood induction procedure.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437