TY - JOUR
T1 - A measure of positive and negative affect for children
T2 - Scale development and preliminary validation
AU - Laurent, Jeff
AU - Catanzaro, Salvatore J.
AU - Rudolph, Karen D.
AU - Joiner, Thomas E.
AU - Potter, Kirsten I.
AU - Lambert, Sharon
AU - Osborne, Lori
AU - Gathright, Tamara
PY - 1999/9/1
Y1 - 1999/9/1
N2 - A child version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; D. Watson, L. A. Clark, and A. Tellegen, 1988), the PANAS-C, was developed using students in Grades 4-8 (N = 707). Item selection was based on psychometric and theoretical grounds. The resulting Negative Affect (NA) and Positive Affect (PA) scales demonstrated good convergent and discriminant validity with existing self-report measures of childhood anxiety and depression; the PANAS-C performed much like its adult namesake. Overall, the PANAS-C, like the adult PANAS, is a brief, useful measure that can be used to differentiate anxiety from depression in youngsters. As such, this instrument addresses the shortcomings of existing measures of childhood anxiety and depression.
AB - A child version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; D. Watson, L. A. Clark, and A. Tellegen, 1988), the PANAS-C, was developed using students in Grades 4-8 (N = 707). Item selection was based on psychometric and theoretical grounds. The resulting Negative Affect (NA) and Positive Affect (PA) scales demonstrated good convergent and discriminant validity with existing self-report measures of childhood anxiety and depression; the PANAS-C performed much like its adult namesake. Overall, the PANAS-C, like the adult PANAS, is a brief, useful measure that can be used to differentiate anxiety from depression in youngsters. As such, this instrument addresses the shortcomings of existing measures of childhood anxiety and depression.
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U2 - 10.1037/1040-3590.11.3.326
DO - 10.1037/1040-3590.11.3.326
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032870487
VL - 11
SP - 326
EP - 338
JO - Psychological Assessment
JF - Psychological Assessment
SN - 1040-3590
IS - 3
ER -