Character Strengths in Israel

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadassah Littman-Ovadia ◽  
Shiri Lavy
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Factorial Structure ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Five Dimensional Model ◽  
Hebrew Version

The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) has been extensively used to assess character strengths. We adapted a Hebrew translation and analyzed its psychometric properties and associations with life satisfaction, personality traits, and positive and negative affect, and examined its factorial structure in 635 Israeli adults. Results indicated the following: (1) All 24 subscales had satisfactory reliabilities (αs > .72). (2) Hope, gratitude, vitality, curiosity, and love had the highest associations with life satisfaction, whereas modesty, appreciation of beauty, fairness, humor and honesty, had the lowest. (3) Women scored higher than men on love, appreciation of beauty and gratitude, with men scoring higher on creativity. (4) A five-dimensional model best represented the factorial structure. Most findings replicated previous findings in other countries, supporting the use of the Hebrew version.

Some Psychometric Properties of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule among Australian Youth

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1209-1212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn A. Melvin ◽  
Geoffrey N. Molloy
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Psychometric Characteristics ◽  
Convenience Sample

The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) was designed to measure two independent or orthogonal dimensions of mood. The present study concerned selected psychometric characteristics of the schedule in a convenience sample of 237 Australian adolescents aged 12 to 18 years. The results were generally supportive of the schedule's reported psychometric properties and for its use across age and nationality.

Neuroticism, alexithymia, negative affect and positive affect as predictors of medically unexplained symptoms in primary care

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. De Gucht
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Medically Unexplained Symptoms ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Medically Unexplained ◽  
Unexplained Symptoms

Background:Somatization has been defined in a number of ways. Despite their differences, these definitions have one element in common, namely the presence of somatic symptoms that cannot be explained (adequately) by organic findings.Objective:The primary objectives of the dissertation were to gain a better insight into the concept of somatization, and to study (prospectively) the relationship between neuroticism and alexithymia, two personality traits that have been shown to be related to somatization, the affective state dimensions positive and negative affect (or psychological distress) and medically unexplained symptoms.Method:A selective review was conducted regarding conceptual and methodological issues related to somatization. A total number of 318 patients, presenting to their primary care physician with medically unexplained symptoms, participated in the prospective study. Both at baseline and at 6-month follow-up a number of measures were filled out with respect to somatization, neuroticism, alexithymia, negative and positive affect, anxiety and depression.Results:The concept of somatization was clarified, thereby making use of the distinction between presenting and functional somatization. The personality traits neuroticism and alexithymia were found to have an indirect influence on symptom reports. Both the cross-sectional and follow-up data pointed to the importance of positive and negative affect as determinants of (changes in) number of symptoms (over time). Negative affect, together with the alexithymia dimension measuring difficulty identifying feelings, predicted symptom persistence.Conclusions:The theoretical as well as therapeutic implications of the present paper may give an impetus to new research in the domain of somatization.

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule: Psychometric Properties for the Brazilian Portuguese Version

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Pires ◽  
Alberto Filgueiras ◽  
Rodolfo Ribas ◽  
Cristina Santana
Keyword(s):  
Item Response Theory ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Item Response ◽  
Item Analysis ◽  
Theory Model ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Partial Credit Model ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Response Theory

AbstractThis study is about the validity and item analysis for the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), respectively through the Exploratory Factor Analysis (principal components method) and the Partial Credit Model (PCM). The scale has been largely used in areas ranging from clinical to social psychology since its release in 1988 by Watson, Clark, and Tellegen. In order to assess validity and item properties (Item Response Theory paradigm), this is study administered PANAS to 354 respondents, 115 male and 239 female subjects, with an average age of 29.5 (SD = 10,18). The results show PANAS’s excellent psychometric properties, with consistent dimensions and reliable item functioning, considering the Rasch measurement paradigm expressed in the PCM as an Item Response Theory model for polytomous data. The study considers important cultural issues and the results support more cautious translations for scales as well as further studies concerned with cross-cultural differences on the perception of affect states.

scholarly journals Attentive and emotional listening to music: The role of positive and negative affect

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Leipold ◽  
Tim Loepthien
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Cross Sectional

In a cross-sectional study, associations of global affect with two ways of listening to music – attentive-analytical listening (AL) and emotional listening (EL) – were examined. Based on a two-dimensional model of general affect, we focused on the degrees to which AL and EL are differentially correlated with positive and negative affect. In addition to bivariate relationships, the interactions between different states of general affect were tested. In Study 1, a sample of 1,291 individuals responded to questionnaires on listening to music, positive affect (PA), and negative affect (NA). We used the PANAS, which measures PA and NA as high arousal dimensions. AL was positively correlated with PA, EL with NA. Moderation analyses showed stronger associations between PA and AL when NA was low. Study 2 (N = 499 participants) differentiated between three facets of affect and focused, in addition to PA and NA, on the role of relaxation. Similar to the findings of Study 1, AL was correlated with PA, EL with NA and PA. Moderation analyses indicated that the degree to which PA was associated with an individual´s tendency to listen to music attentively depended on their degree of relaxation. In addition, the correlation between PA and EL was stronger for individuals who were more relaxed; for individuals who were less relaxed, the correlation between NA and EL was stronger. In sum, the results demonstrate not only simple bivariate correlations, but also that the expected associations vary, depending on the different affective states. We argue that the results reflect a dual function of listening to music, which includes emotional regulation and information processing.

scholarly journals THE AFFECT BALANCE SCALE (ABS): PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES IN ARGENTINA

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-443
Author(s):  
Hugo Simkin ◽  
Charles Benjamin Warter ◽  
Agustín Freiberg Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Affect Balance ◽  
Affective Component ◽  
Balance Scale ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Probabilistic Sample

The Affect Balance Scale (ABS) was developed to assess the affective component of subjective well-being. This study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of ABS in a non-probabilistic sample composed of 2241 individuals in the general population in Argentina, ages ranging from 18 to 89 years (M = 37.53; SD = 14.80). The results suggest acceptable psychometric properties within the sample. Excellent adjustment to the data of the two-dimensional model is observed through confirmatory factor analysis. Results of the factorial invariance analysis of gender conducted indicate that both groups are equivalent in terms of the factor structure under investigation. Internal consistency was also found to be adequate. As a result, the study contributed to assessing positive and negative affect in Spanish speaking populations.

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