Abstract
Mood data were collected during a full (3 quarter) academic year. Mood was measured along 4 affective dimensions ( apprehension, resentment, discouragement, cheer) and along a performance dimension ( readiness to exert voluntary effort). Between 22 and 81 students enrolled in sections of introductory psychology served as Ss each week. Analysis of the data shows that average student mood changes both qualitatively and in intensity during the academic quarter, and that these changes are related to the structure of academic demand. In general apprehension, resentment and discouragement become increasingly prominent as the quarter progresses and moods are most intense at the beginning and end of each quarter. Readiness to exert voluntary effort shifts in an unreliable fashion. Mood intensity, not quality, appears to be related to activation level.
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