Differentiate among emotions, feelings and moods. Describe the five components of emotions.

 Difference between Emotions and Mood

Emotions	Mood
Emotions have a cause that is clear. For example, a person may be amazed while looking at a beautiful monument	“Moods are free floating and diffuse affective states” (Nolen- Hoeksema et al, 2009, pg 465). For example, an individual may feel cheerful on a day and may feel irritated the next day.
They are brief and may last for few seconds or minutes	Moods are comparatively long lasting
Emotions are a multicomponent episode	Moods are mainly related to the experience that is subjective
Emotions can fit in certain categories that are discreet, like anger, joy and so on	Moods may vary with regard to pleasantness and arousal

 

Difference between Emotions and Feelings

Emotions	Feelings
Emotions are comparatively more complex. It is basically an affective process that is simple in nature.	It is basically an affective process that is simple in nature.
Any emotional experience is preceded and accompanied by feelings. For example, feeling of pleasure will lead or will be accompanied with the emotion of happiness/ joy.	In feeling, emotional experience may or may not occur. For example, an individual may experience feelings of pleasure or pain without experiencing any emotions.
Emotion is an affective process that is much more active.	Feeling is process that is comparatively less active.
Emotion is both subjective and objective.	Feeling is subjective in nature.
Emotions are of different types, for example, anger, joy, jealous and so forth	Feelings are mainly categorised in to pleasure and pain.
Physiological changes are experienced	Physiological changes may not be noticed.

 

Emotions can be viewed as having five components.

• 1)      Affective: also referred to as a conscious, subjective feeling. Individuals monitor their internal, felt states and recognise what they are feeling.
• 2)      Cognitive: involves describing or assigning meaning to the emotion. Thus, thinking about a feeling is very different from the actual feeling. Individuals try to understand the reason behind why something is happening and try to judge how an event might impact them.
• 3)      Physiologic: bodily reactions such as palms sweating upon feeling anxious.
• 4)      Motivational: Going toward or away from an action or person. This component is also referred to as action tendencies, which refers to specific actions that the individual takes that may be voluntary or involuntary. For example, moving one’s hand away from a hot pan is an involuntary action, while going on an early morning run despite feeling tired is a voluntary action. Each emotion may be associated with a particular action tendency.
• 5)      Expressive: Displaying emotions through facial expressions such as smiling, crying, frowning or body movements such as throwing a vase when angry to communicate emotions to others.

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