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Measurement Invariance of the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience Across 13 Countries
Irene ChecaKwok Kit TongAna Junça SilvaMohsen JoshanlooKamlesh SinghCorrado CaudekJarosław PiotrowskiSean P. M. RiceJulia KraskoMagdalena ŻEmojtel-piotrowskaMarta Martín-carbonellKatsunori SumiBegoña EspejoTheodoros KyriazosMurat YıldırımVeljko Jovanovićsubject
AdultCross-Cultural ComparisonMale050103 clinical psychologyAdolescentPsychometricsPanasEmotionsCulturepositive emotionsSatisfactionnegative emotions050109 social psychologyAngerYoung Adultmultigroup confirmatory factor analysiscross-culturalModelsGermanySurveys and QuestionnairesValidationHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesMeasurement invarianceOnlineApplied PsychologyAgedAged 80 and over05 social sciencesEmocionsMiddle AgedLife ScaleReliabilityUnited Statesmeasurement invarianceClinical PsychologyScale (social sciences)Positive emotionSPANEFemaleFactorial InvarianceFactor Analysis StatisticalPsychologySocial psychologyNegative emotiondescription
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 negative emotion terms (e.g., negative and unpleasant) might be more suitable for cross-cultural studies on emotions and well-being, whereas caution is needed when comparing countries using the SPANE's specific negative emotion items.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-01 | Assessment |