A first approach to the validation of the Italian version of the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales of Anxiety and Hostility is presented. To assess the validity of the Affective Content Analysis Scales the Gottschalk-Gleser standard procedure for obtaining verbal samples was followed and concurrently self-report measurements of comparable emotional constructs were applied. A short form of the Differential Emotions Scale (DES) was administered three times to 50 university students to measure the emotional state before as well as after speech sampling and the affectivity associated with the narrated life event. To investigate whether the Gottschalk-Gleser Affect Scales measure emotional traits the State-Trait-Anxiety-Inventory, an S-R Inventory of Anxiety, the Shame-Guilt Scale ( Battacchi, Codispoti, & Marano, 1994 ) and the Irritability Scale ( Caprara, Borgogni, Cinanni, di Giandomenico, & Passerini, 1985 ) were applied. Though the correlations between the measures were generally low, evidence of convergent validity emerged for the Gottschalk-Gleser Total Anxiety Scale, the anxiety subscales Guilt Anxiety and Shame Anxiety (that seem to measure an anxiety pattern consisting of several basic emotions) and for the hostility subscale Overt Outward Hostility. The correlational data indicate that the Gottschalk-Gleser Affect Scales assess emotional traits as well as emotional states.
Affective content analysis of music video clips
