Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e35352. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035352. Epub 2012 Apr 18.
The Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS) is a measure specifically designed to capture the anticipatory and consummatory facets of pleasure. However, few studies have examined the structure of the measure in non-Western samples. The current study aimed to evaluate the factor structure and psychometric properties of the TEPS in a Chinese sample.
We administered the Chinese version of the TEPS to 2275 healthy Chinese college students. They were randomly split into two sub-samples. The first sub-sample was used for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to examine the structure of the TEPS in a Chinese sample. The second sub-sample was used as a validation sample for the identified structure from the EFA and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was adopted.
Results of the EFA suggested a four-factor model (consummatory contextual, consummatory abstract, anticipatory contextual, and anticipatory abstract factors) instead of the original two-factor model (consummatory and anticipatory factors) ascertained from Western samples in the United States. The CFA results confirmed these results in the second sub-sample. Internal consistency and test-retest stability of the TEPS factors were good.
The TEPS has four factors among Chinese participants. Possible reasons for cultural difference and potential applications of the TEPS for cross-cultural comparison are discussed.
愉悦时间体验量表（TEPS）是一种专门用于捕捉愉悦的预期和满足两个方面的测量工具。然而，很少有研究在非西方样本中检验该测量工具的结构。本研究旨在评估 TEPS 在中国样本中的结构和心理测量特性。
我们向 2275 名健康的中国大学生发放了中文版本的 TEPS。他们被随机分为两个子样本。第一个子样本用于探索性因子分析（EFA），以检验 TEPS 在中文样本中的结构。第二个子样本作为 EFA 确定结构的验证样本，采用验证性因子分析（CFA）。
EFA 的结果表明，与美国等西方国家确定的原始两因素模型（满足和预期因素）相比，该模型呈现出四因素模型（满足性语境、满足性抽象、预期性语境和预期性抽象因素）。第二个子样本的 CFA 结果证实了这一结果。TEPS 各因素的内部一致性和重测信度较好。
在中国参与者中，TEPS 有四个因素。讨论了文化差异的可能原因以及 TEPS 用于跨文化比较的潜在应用。
