The Internal Structure of Positive and Negative Affect: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the PANAS

Autor/inn/en	Tuccitto, Daniel E.; Giacobbi, Peter R., Jr.; Leite, Walter L.
Titel	The Internal Structure of Positive and Negative Affect: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the PANAS
Quelle	In: Educational and Psychological Measurement, 70 (2010) 1, S.125-141 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1644
DOI	10.1177/0013164409344522
Schlagwörter	Factor Analysis; Models; Affective Measures; Validity; Reliability; Athletes; Comparative Analysis; Test Interpretation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Faktorenanalyse; Analogiemodell; Gültigkeit; Reliabilität; Athlet; Test analysis; Testauswertung
Abstract	This study tested five confirmatory factor analytic (CFA) models of the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) to provide validity evidence based on its internal structure. A sample of 223 club sport athletes indicated their emotions during the past week. Results revealed that an orthogonal two-factor CFA model, specifying error correlations according to Zevon and Tellegen's mood content categories, provided the best fit to our data. In addition, parameter estimates for this model suggest that PANAS scores are reliable and explain large proportions of item variance. Taken together with previous research, the findings further suggest that the PANAS may be a higher-order measure of affect and includes several consistently problematic items. The authors recommend that affect researchers attempt to improve the PANAS by (a) revising consistently problematic items, (b) adding new items to better capture mood content categories, and (c) providing additional internal structure validity evidence through a diagonally weighted least squares estimation of a second-order PANAS CFA model. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10