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Kwok Kit Tong

Measurement Invariance of the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience Across 13 Countries

The Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE) is widely used to measure emotional experiences, but not much is known about its cross-cultural utility. The present study evaluated the measurement invariance of the SPANE across adult samples (N = 12,635; age range = 18-85 years; 58.2% female) from 13 countries (China, Colombia, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, and the United States). Configural and partial scalar invariance of the SPANE were supported. Three items capturing specific negative emotions (sad, afraid, and angry) were found to be culturally noninvariant. Our findings suggest that the SPANE's positive emotion terms and general n…

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Culture-level dimensions of social axioms and their correlates across 41 cultures

Leung and colleagues have revealed a five-dimensional structure of social axioms across individuals from five cultural groups. The present research was designed to reveal the culture level factor structure of social axioms and its correlates across 41 nations. An ecological factor analysis on the 60 items of the Social Axioms Survey extracted two factors: Dynamic Externality correlates with value measures tapping collectivism, hierarchy, and conservatism and with national indices indicative of lower social development. Societal Cynicism is less strongly and broadly correlated with previous values measures or other national indices and seems to define a novel cultural syndrome. Its national …

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sj-pdf-1-asm-10.1177_10731911211021494 – Supplemental material for Measurement Invariance of the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience Across 13 Countries

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-asm-10.1177_10731911211021494 for Measurement Invariance of the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience Across 13 Countries by Veljko Jovanović, Mohsen Joshanloo, Marta Martín-Carbonell, Corrado Caudek, Begoña Espejo, Irene Checa, Julia Krasko, Theodoros Kyriazos, Jarosław Piotrowski, Sean P. M. Rice, Ana Junça Silva, Kamlesh Singh, Katsunori Sumi, Kwok Kit Tong, Murat Yıldırım and Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska in Assessment

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