A measure of positive and negative affect for children: Scale development and preliminary validation.

Laurent, Jeff; J. Catanzaro, Salvatore; E. Joiner, Thomas; D. Rudolph, Karen; I. Potter, Kirsten; F. Lambert, Sharon; N. Osborne, Lori; Gathright, Tamara

doi:10.1037/1040-3590.11.3.326

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A measure of positive and negative affect for children: Scale development and preliminary validation.

Published in Psychological Assessment • Sep 1, 1999

Authors:

Jeff Laurent

Salvatore J. Catanzaro

Thomas E. Joiner

Abstract

A child version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS: D. Watson, L. A. Clark, & A. Tellegen, 1988), the PANAS-C, was developed using students in Grades 4-8 (N = 707). Item selection was based on psychometric and theoretical grounds. The resulting Negative Affect (NA) and Positive Affe...

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Psychology

Test validity

Affect (linguistics)

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