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Positive and Negative Affect Schedule: Psychometric Properties for the Brazilian Portuguese Version

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2013

Pedro Pires ,
Alberto Filgueiras ,
Rodolfo Ribas  and
Cristina Santana
Pedro Pires*
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Alberto Filgueiras
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Rodolfo Ribas
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Cristina Santana
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
*
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Pedro Pires. Instituto de Psicologia. Avenida Pasteur, 250. Praia Vermelha. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Phone: (Fax): +55-213873-5328. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This study is about the validity and item analysis for the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), respectively through the Exploratory Factor Analysis (principal components method) and the Partial Credit Model (PCM). The scale has been largely used in areas ranging from clinical to social psychology since its release in 1988 by Watson, Clark, and Tellegen. In order to assess validity and item properties (Item Response Theory paradigm), this is study administered PANAS to 354 respondents, 115 male and 239 female subjects, with an average age of 29.5 (SD = 10,18). The results show PANAS’s excellent psychometric properties, with consistent dimensions and reliable item functioning, considering the Rasch measurement paradigm expressed in the PCM as an Item Response Theory model for polytomous data. The study considers important cultural issues and the results support more cautious translations for scales as well as further studies concerned with cross-cultural differences on the perception of affect states.

Keywords

validityitem analysisitem response theoryaffectpositive psychology
Type
Research Article
Information
The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 16 , 2013 , E58
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Copyright © Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2013 

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Footnotes

This research was supported by grant CAPES, Ministry of Education - Brazil.

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