title: Factors affecting the extent of Monday blues: evidence from a meta-analysis.
abstract: A meta-analysis of 34 samples identified a small but reliable "Monday blues" effect (-.08 < or = d < or = -.06) in samples reporting current or real-time moods for each day of the week. However, the size of the effect in samples reporting recalled summaries of moods experienced over the course of a day varied depending on whether the sample involved university students or nonstudents. University students reporting recalled summaries of daily moods showed a large Monday blues effect (d = -.25), whereas married men who were not students reported smaller effects with greater variance (-.19 < or = d <or = -.01). The 34 samples reporting recalled summaries of moods experienced over multiple days produced effects ranging from -.25 to -1.28, but the variance among these samples was too great to estimate an aggregated statistic.
authors.affiliation: The University of Sydney, Australia. c.areni@econ.usyd.edu.au
authors.forename: Charles S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Areni
authors.forename: Mitchell
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Burger
authors.forename: Natalina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zlatevska
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities