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Negative Mood States Are Related to the Characteristics of Facial Expression Drawing: A Cross-Sectional Study

An assessment of mood or emotion is important in developing mental health measures, and facial expressions are strongly related to mood or emotion. This study thus aimed to examine the relationship between levels of negative mood and characteristics of mouth parts when moods are drawn as facial expr...

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Autores principales: Nanayama Tanaka, Chika, Higa, Hayato, Ogawa, Noriko, Ishido, Minenori, Nakamura, Tomohiro, Nishiwaki, Masato
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7773925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391093
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.576683
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author Nanayama Tanaka, Chika
Higa, Hayato
Ogawa, Noriko
Ishido, Minenori
Nakamura, Tomohiro
Nishiwaki, Masato
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Higa, Hayato
Ogawa, Noriko
Ishido, Minenori
Nakamura, Tomohiro
Nishiwaki, Masato
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description An assessment of mood or emotion is important in developing mental health measures, and facial expressions are strongly related to mood or emotion. This study thus aimed to examine the relationship between levels of negative mood and characteristics of mouth parts when moods are drawn as facial expressions on a common platform. A cross-sectional study of Japanese college freshmen was conducted, and 1,068 valid responses were analyzed. The questionnaire survey consisted of participants’ characteristics, the Profile of Mood States (POMS), and a sheet of facial expression drawing (FACED), and the sheet was digitized and analyzed using an image-analysis software. Based on the total POMS score as an index of negative mood, the participants were divided into four groups: low (L), normal (N), high (H), and very high (VH). Lengths of drawn lines and between both mouth corners were significantly longer, and circularity and roundness were significantly higher in the L group. With increasing levels of negative mood, significant decreasing trends were observed in these lengths. Convex downward and enclosed figures were significantly predominant in the L group, while convex upward figures were significantly predominant and a tendency toward predominance of no drawn mouths or line figures was found in the H and VH groups. Our results suggest that mood states can be significantly related to the size and figure characteristics of drawn mouths of FACED on a non-verbal common platform. That is, these findings mean that subjects with low negative mood may draw a greater and rounder mouth and figures that may be enclosed and downward convex, while subjects with a high negative mood may not draw the line, or if any, may draw the line shorter and upward convex.
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spelling pubmed-77739252021-01-01 Negative Mood States Are Related to the Characteristics of Facial Expression Drawing: A Cross-Sectional Study Nanayama Tanaka, Chika Higa, Hayato Ogawa, Noriko Ishido, Minenori Nakamura, Tomohiro Nishiwaki, Masato Front Psychol Psychology An assessment of mood or emotion is important in developing mental health measures, and facial expressions are strongly related to mood or emotion. This study thus aimed to examine the relationship between levels of negative mood and characteristics of mouth parts when moods are drawn as facial expressions on a common platform. A cross-sectional study of Japanese college freshmen was conducted, and 1,068 valid responses were analyzed. The questionnaire survey consisted of participants’ characteristics, the Profile of Mood States (POMS), and a sheet of facial expression drawing (FACED), and the sheet was digitized and analyzed using an image-analysis software. Based on the total POMS score as an index of negative mood, the participants were divided into four groups: low (L), normal (N), high (H), and very high (VH). Lengths of drawn lines and between both mouth corners were significantly longer, and circularity and roundness were significantly higher in the L group. With increasing levels of negative mood, significant decreasing trends were observed in these lengths. Convex downward and enclosed figures were significantly predominant in the L group, while convex upward figures were significantly predominant and a tendency toward predominance of no drawn mouths or line figures was found in the H and VH groups. Our results suggest that mood states can be significantly related to the size and figure characteristics of drawn mouths of FACED on a non-verbal common platform. That is, these findings mean that subjects with low negative mood may draw a greater and rounder mouth and figures that may be enclosed and downward convex, while subjects with a high negative mood may not draw the line, or if any, may draw the line shorter and upward convex. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7773925/ /pubmed/33391093 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.576683 Text en Copyright © 2020 Nanayama Tanaka, Higa, Ogawa, Ishido, Nakamura and Nishiwaki. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Nanayama Tanaka, Chika
Higa, Hayato
Ogawa, Noriko
Ishido, Minenori
Nakamura, Tomohiro
Nishiwaki, Masato
Negative Mood States Are Related to the Characteristics of Facial Expression Drawing: A Cross-Sectional Study
title Negative Mood States Are Related to the Characteristics of Facial Expression Drawing: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Negative Mood States Are Related to the Characteristics of Facial Expression Drawing: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Negative Mood States Are Related to the Characteristics of Facial Expression Drawing: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Negative Mood States Are Related to the Characteristics of Facial Expression Drawing: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Negative Mood States Are Related to the Characteristics of Facial Expression Drawing: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort negative mood states are related to the characteristics of facial expression drawing: a cross-sectional study
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7773925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391093
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.576683
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