How does a person's mood on a given day -- a person may be stressed out, angry, or very happy, for example -- affect their Clifton StrengthsFinder results?

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01 November 2001

A person's mood doesn't affect the results very much at all. We discovered this by asking the same people to complete the Clifton StrengthsFinder profile twice, on separate occasions, months apart. Despite the fact that their moods were presumably different, each person's results were overwhelmingly consistent between the two administrations. Statisticians will be interested in knowing that the test/re-test correlations were .89 (a perfect correlation is 1.0). This doesn't mean that your mood will have no effect whatsoever on your responses to the statements. However, it does mean that the statement-pairs effectively cut through your mood to reveal your strongest patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.

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