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Positive and Negative Affect Scale
A psychometric scale to measure positive and negative affects in individuals, and both as states and traits. Positive affect questions assess to what extent the participant is attentive, interested, alert, excited, enthusiastic, inspired, proud, determined, strong and active. Negative affect questions assess to what extent the participant is distressed, upset, hostile, irritable, scared, afraid, ashamed, guilty, nervous, and jittery. Participants answer questions on a Likert scale where 0=very, 1=slightly or not at all, 2=a little, 3=moderately, 4=quite a bit, and 5=very much. The questionnaire asks whether participants have felt these traits "during the past few weeks" (trait) and "during the past few days" (state).

Definition contributed by CTorgerson about eight months ago.


Task records: 3  

sadness
  • standard deviation from the mean score
 

happiness
  • standard deviation from the mean score
 

mood
  • State Affect
 


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Age-group differences in facets of positive and negative affect.
Ready RE, Vaidya JG, Watson D, Latzman RD, Koffel EA, Clark LA
Aging & mental health (Aging Ment Health)
2011 Jan 1
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Modeling trait and state variation using multilevel factor analysis with PANAS daily diary data.
Merz EL, Roesch SC
Journal of research in personality (J Res Pers)
2011 Feb 1
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Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: the PANAS scales.
Watson D, Clark LA, Tellegen A
(J Pers Soc Psychol)
1988 Jun
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