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Objectives: Positive and negative affect is a relevant facet of well-being for community-dwelling older adults.
This article reports the validation of the Positive And Negative Affect Scale (PANAS), by means of
confirmatory analysis.
Methods: A community-dwelling cross-national sample of 1291 older adults aged 75 years-old and older
voluntarily completed the PANAS. The relations between variables in the model were evaluated using structural
equation based on maximum likelihood estimation. The distributional properties, cross-sample stability, internal
reliability, and convergent, external and criterion-related validities of the PANAS were analyzed and found to be
psychometrically acceptable.
Results: Our results outcomes support for the hypothesis that the PANAS is valid and reliable in the two 10-item
mood scales, hence fit for use with older adults, within a culturally diverse view of well-being.
Conclusions: The psychometric properties of the PANAS are satisfactory in this older sample, and according to
those of its early version. Taken together, these results substantiate the validity of this measure when applied to
an older community cross-national population.
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Older adults Psychometric properties Positive and negative affect Positive and negative affect scale
Citation
Review of European Studies, 9(2), 10-19. Doi: 10.5539/res.v9n2p10
Publisher
Canadian Center of Science and Education