SenseCam, imagery and bias in memory for wellbeing

Figures & data

Figure 1.  Change in sad mood, happy mood, and task enjoyment ratings following exposure to SenseCam review with positive versus negative captions. Change scores were calculated by subtracting baseline mood and task enjoyment ratings from the same ratings following task review. Thus a positive score indicates an increase in mood ratings from baseline to the review phase, whereas a negative score indicates a decrease in mood ratings. All ratings were made on visual analogue scales ranging from 1 (not at all) to 100 (extremely).

TABLE 1  Mean (SD) mood visual analogue ratings in the three phases of the study: Performance, SenseCam review, and 24-hour follow-up

		SenseCam review		24-hour follow-up
	Performance	Positive captions	Negative captions	Positive captions	Negative captions
Sad	25.5 (5.9)	25.2 (5.8)	39.4 (5.8)	–	–
Happy	56.8 (4.4)	54.6 (5.0)	36.8 (3.8)	–	–
Enjoyable	50.8 (2.9)	55.1 (4.6)	28.3 (2.9)	56.8 (3.1)	52.9 (3.3)
Vividly	–	–	–	68.5 (3.3)	69.0 (2.9)
Field imagery	–	3.65 (0.22)	3.54 (0.15)
Bystander imagery	–	1.92 (0.77)	1.90 (0.55)
For sad and happy mood, participants were asked to rate how they were feeling in the present moment, immediately following completion of each task in the performance phase, or immediately following SenseCamreview of each task in the review phase. Participants were asked to rate how enjoyable they found each task in the same way. At follow-up, participants were asked to rate how enjoyable they had found each task during the performance phase and how vividly they could remember each task. Sad and happy mood, enjoyable ratings, and how vividly remembered were made on scales ranging from 1 (not at all) to 100 (extremely). Field and bystander imagery were rated on a 1 to 5 scale.