Journal article
Measurement Invariance of the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience Across 13 Countries
V Jovanović, M Joshanloo, M Martín-Carbonell, C Caudek, B Espejo, I Checa, J Krasko, T Kyriazos, J Piotrowski, SPM Rice, A Junça Silva, K Singh, K Sumi, KK Tong, M Yıldırım, M Żemojtel-Piotrowska
Assessment | SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC | Published : 2022
Abstract
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 ne..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The U.S. data collection was funded in part by the Marchionne Summer Research Fellowship from Washington State University and the Total Worker Health (R) Dissertation Award from the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, a Total Worker Health (R) Center of Excellence funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Grant number U19OH010154).