Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE) in the General Colombian Population

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Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE) in the General Colombian Population

Yadid Paternina Martha Fernández-daza Begoña Espejo Marta Martín-carbonell Irene Checa

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Percentile positive and negative experiences confirmatory factor analysis Psychometrics Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Concurrent validity 050109 social psychology Colombia Colombian population psychological assessment psycho-metric properties structural equation modeling Structural equation modeling Article wellbeing 0504 sociology Surveys and Questionnaires 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychological testing Measurement invariance Comportament col·lectiu 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health R 050401 social sciences methods Reproducibility of Results Confirmatory factor analysis measurement invariance Cross-Sectional Studies quality of life Psicologia Scale (social sciences)SPANE Medicine Metric (unit)Psychology Factor Analysis Statistical Psicometria Clinical psychology

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(1) Background: Diener’s Scale of Positive and Negative Experiences (SPANE) assesses the presence and intensity of positive and negative affects, since these are considered basic aspects of the study of well-being. This article studies its psychometric properties in the general Colombian population. (2) We conducted a cross-sectional study of a sample of 1255 Colombians and we used structural equation modeling to confirm the bifactor structure. Additionally, we studied invariance by gender, and convergent and concurrent validity. (3) We found acceptable fit indicators for the bifactor model (CFI = 0.889, RMSEA = 0.046, SRMR = 0.059) as well as for the convergent (CFI = 0.909, RMSEA = 0.050, SRMR = 0.063) and concurrent (CFI = 0.966, RMSEA = 0.036, SRMR = 0.041) validity models. We did not confirm total invariance across gender, although we found configural and metric invariance, so percentiles by sex were provided. (4) Conclusions: The SPANE is a valid and reliable measure to assess well-being among the Colombian population, although we alert researchers to the risk of comparing affectivity average scores between sexes.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2021-06-15

10.3390/ijerph18126449 https://hdl.handle.net/10550/80217