Affective states have become a central topic of interest in research on
organizational behavior. Recently, scholars have been paying more attention to
the proposals of the Circumplex Model (Russell, 1980) in order to gain a finer grained understanding of
job-related affect. However, the limited availability of well-validated measures
to test this model in work settings, particularly in non English-speaking
populations, is still a major drawback. Using three samples of English-speaking
and Spanish-speaking workers, this article offers the cross-validation of the
Multi-Affect Indicator (Warr, 2007)
between the original English version and its corresponding translation into
Spanish. Multi-group Structural Equation Modeling supported the
instrument’s structure and its invariance between the two languages
(English: χ2 = 65.56, df
= 48, p = .05; RMSEA = .06;
CFI = .97; Spanish: χ2 = 68.68,
df = 48, p = .03;
RMSEA = .05; CFI = .97). Furthermore, Circular Stochastic
Modeling supported the theoretically proposed circumplex representation
(χ2 = 139.85, df
= 51, p < .01;
χ2/df = 2.74, RMSEA
= .06). Thus, this study offers an instrument that provides a more
accurate approximation to affect at work, both in English and in another of the
major language communities in the world, the Spanish-speaking population.