University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea.
Assessment. 2022 Oct;29(7):1507-1521. doi: 10.1177/10731911211021494. Epub 2021 Jun 9.
The Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE) is widely used to measure emotional experiences, but not much is known about its cross-cultural utility. The present study evaluated the measurement invariance of the SPANE across adult samples ( = 12,635; age range = 18-85 years; 58.2% female) from 13 countries (China, Colombia, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, and the United States). Configural and partial scalar invariance of the SPANE were supported. Three items capturing specific negative emotions (sad, afraid, and angry) were found to be culturally noninvariant. Our findings suggest that the SPANE's positive emotion terms and general negative emotion terms (e.g., negative and unpleasant) might be more suitable for cross-cultural studies on emotions and well-being, whereas caution is needed when comparing countries using the SPANE's specific negative emotion items.
正负面体验量表（SPANE）被广泛用于测量情绪体验，但关于其跨文化实用性的了解并不多。本研究评估了 SPANE 在来自 13 个国家（中国、哥伦比亚、德国、希腊、印度、意大利、日本、波兰、葡萄牙、塞尔维亚、西班牙、土耳其和美国）的成年样本（n=12635；年龄范围 18-85 岁；58.2%为女性）中的测量不变性。支持了 SPANE 的组态和部分标度不变性。发现三个捕捉特定负面情绪（悲伤、害怕和愤怒）的项目在文化上是不可变的。我们的研究结果表明，SPANE 的积极情绪术语和一般负面情绪术语（例如，消极和不愉快）可能更适合关于情绪和幸福感的跨文化研究，而在使用 SPANE 的特定负面情绪项目比较国家时需要谨慎。
