Examining the cross-cultural validity of the positive affect and negative affect schedule between an Asian (Singaporean) sample and a Western (American) sample

• Main Authors: LEE, Sean Teck Hao, HARTANTO, Andree, YONG, Jose C., KOH, Brandon, LEUNG, Angela K. Y.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: cross-cultural comparison; measurement invariance; multigroup confirmatory factor analysis; negative affect; PANAS; positive affect; American Studies; Asian Studies; Clinical Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3041; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4298/viewcontent/Examining_the_cross.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The positive affect and negative affect schedule (PANAS) is a popular measure of positive (PA) and negative affectivity (NA). Developed and validated in Western contexts, the 20-item scale has been frequently administered on respondents from Asian countries with the assumption of cross-cultural meas...