Validation of the PANAS: A measure of positive and negative affect for use with cross-national older adults

摘要

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 ofconfirmatory analysis.Methods: A community-dwelling cross-national sample of 1291 older adults aged 75 years-old and oldervoluntarily completed the PANAS. The relations between variables in the model were evaluated using structuralequation based on maximum likelihood estimation. The distributional properties, cross-sample stability, internalreliability, and convergent, external and criterion-related validities of the PANAS were analyzed and found to bepsychometrically acceptable.Results: Our results outcomes support for the hypothesis that the PANAS is valid and reliable in the two 10-itemmood 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 tothose of its early version. Taken together, these results substantiate the validity of this measure when applied toan older community cross-national population.